Shannon Costello

I took the bottle out of the pantry to oil the parchment paper for the pizza and now the cap is gone.
I moved the bread machine and the knife block and everything else.  I searched the smelly depths of the trashcan- twice. I even got down on the floor and looked at the counters at [...]

Our last small group study was about peace, then the sermon was from Matthew 20, about the vineyard workers that expected to be paid more because they worked all day.  We are all like those angry workers, the pastor said, all indignant because we didn’t get more than we deserve.  Spanish church was about the [...]

Note:  authorities are looking for clues in the stabbing death of a two-year-old electric pencil sharpener.  The victim was discovered when a teacher in the building heard him whirring in pain.  She noticed the paper-clip end protruding from an opening and administered first aid by unplugging the victim.  The pencil sharpener was pronounced dead several [...]

My SOP has been to shop at Food Lion regularly but to make regular (say, monthly) runs to Target for cleaning supplies, crackling oat bran, and altoids. Lately I have started to slip…I’ll just pick up dish detergent at FL…too lazy to go to T…
It got to the point where I started to get curious.  [...]

I dislike terms like “misadventure”, where “mis” is tacked on to an old word to make a new one.  But perhaps my use of it suggests I am coming to accept it…after all, like it or not, it is part of our language. My bigger pet peeve these days is writing like this:  How do [...]

Sometimes my faith gets thin and I break through the crust and find myself in danger of falling, falling…
I have a tendency to imagine conversations with people.  They are generally not healthy conversations.  This one was the standard “have-you-considered-adoption” conversation (not intended to be offensive, of course, and not really considered offensive- I think it [...]

Tomorrow is supposed to be a half day for the kids.  We get to work the other half, and I could use the time.  Since there is a half day, any kind of weather-related delay could mean that school is canceled.  I do NOT want that.
But then, if I woke up tomorrow morning, went to [...]

I had decided that my lack of understanding of economics and trade and agriculture interfered with my story line in my (ahem) novel, so I was in the library hunting for a book that would rectify this weakness when I bumped into this one.  The book is about a huge corporation known as the United [...]