Jody Hewgill When my aunt offered us a mattress she no longer needed, my mother took it, saying, “Never look a gift mattress in the nose.” When I seemed to be pushing too hard and not getting enough sleep, she said, “Don’t bite the candle off at both ends.”
So I strive to accept, graciously, all that is given to me and to relax. After all, an apple a day never falls far from the tree.
Pete Nelson’s most recent novel is I Thought You Were Dead.
