Chris Erskine: We're in need of a little refinishing
by Chris Erskine, Los Angeles Times
May 01, 2018
3 minutes
We are a house of half-done things. The tomatoes are semi-planted, and the old dresser may never be refinished. The other day, I noticed the electric pencil sharper has a little stub in it from when someone broke off a tip. One of the inmates was probably making a shiv.
"Dad?"
"Yeah?"
"When you're done with the dresser, can you fix the kitchen faucet?" our daughter Rapunzel asks.
Yeah, sure. Don't you know it's baseball season? Don't you know
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