Sherry Clements's Blog

• Spring Cleaning

  March 18, 2010

  •      The kids in my old neighborhood always loved spring cleaning. It began when one housewife wrestled open winter-stuck windows. Then another threw her rugs over the clothesline and beat them without mercy. It was as if all the women felt the same strange vibration because by the end of the day, every house was turned upside down. Mothers dragged boxes of trash and other good junk into the ...
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• Flying across the Grand Prairie

  January 6, 2010

  •   Good work is often done by women who drive small, economy cars. When I worked for the Disability Rights Center in '92 - '93, I drove a little blue Ford Festiva. In a survey of college students at that time, it was voted as the geekiest car in the United States of America. It was a box on four wheels. But what did I care? The car got thirty-seven miles to the gallon, and it served me well in my ...
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