August

 

SUBJECT:Re: Mom

DATE: 8/5/02 8:09:45 am PDT

FROM: Airheart@well.com

TO: biancasillman@earthlink.net; Catwoman53@aol.com

Hey, team Harris—

Mrs. Grossman called this morning. She thought we ought to know that our seventy-eight-year-old mother with the new hip was on the second-story roof cleaning the gutters. I told her we’d hired Tony for the daredevil housework, but Mrs. Grossman says Tony has already left for college, because he has soccer camp. So one of us should probably go down and find someone else.

(And what’s up with little Grigg? He called me last night with that scraped-paint voice he gets, so obvious he wants me to know something’s wrong, but then he won’t say what.)

Amelia

 

SUBJECT:Re: re: Mom

DATE: 8/5/02 11:15:52 am PDT

FROM: Catwoman53@aol.com

TO: Airheart@well.com; biancasillman@earthlink.net

I just want us all to be clear that this is exactly what Mom wants. She knows Mrs. Grossman will call and then we’ll all look like shocking, neglectful daughters and someone will be dispatched posthaste. I mean, of course someone has to go, but she’s a cunning old woman, and why can’t she just ask us? I say she should be locked up in a nursing home until she promises to stay off the roof.

As to Grigg, am I the only one who thinks he’s in love again? And about time? How long ago was Sandra?

love all, Cat

 

SUBJECT:Re: re: re: Mom

DA TE: 8/5/02 12:27:59 pm PDT

FROM: Airheart@well.com

TO: Catwoman53@aol.com; biancasillman@earthlink.net

I blame us for Grigg’s love life. We set a standard no woman can possibly live up to.

A

 

SUBJECT:Mom and Grigg

DATE: 8/5/02 1:02:07 pm PDT

FROM: biancasillman@earthlink.net

TO: Airheart@well.com; Catwoman53@aol.com

Things are slow here so I don’t mind going and dealing with Mom. (We are shocking, neglectful daughters.)

I’m pretty sure Grigg likes some woman in his book club. I’m not so sure she likes him back. He called me, too, last night, so very late, so very down. I worry that Sandra left him even more fragile than before. (What’s that girl scout motto—Leave the campsite better than you found it? Sandra was no girl scout.) I always thought she was just using him for his computer skills.

Love to the husbands and kiddies, Bianca

 

SUBJEC T:Re: Mom and Grigg

DATE: 8/5/02 1:27:22 pm PDT

FROM: Catwoman53@aol.com

TO: Airheart@well.com; biancasillman@earthlink.net

Sandra was a piece of work. You remember your Christmas party, Amelia? Just step away from the mistletoe, lady. Keep your hands where we can see them. We did try to warn him. One pretty face and he just doesn’t listen to his sisters anymore.

XXXXXX, Cat

 

SUBJECT:Re: re: Mom and Grigg

DA TE: 8/5/02 5:30:22 pm PDT

FROM: Airheart@well.com

TO: Catwoman53@aol.com; biancasillman@earthlink.net

If Grigg’s in love again, one of us better go take care of that, too.

A