By Ann Burnside Love
• Someone else cleans my apartment regularly, changes my bed
linen, and recycles my newspapers. (If this sounds wonderful, it is.) After
certain breaks in health, I really can't do many of these things. And I'm most
grateful for their services because they allow me time to continue my
professional career at the level I do.
• At Thanksgiving, Christmas, Easter and more holidays, our
kitchen staff throws banquets for us so delicious that family members love to
come. Thus I still have a turn in the family cycle for holiday entertaining.
• Vanessa, the cat, is happy here, has engraved all her
habits, wishes and desires upon my brain, and she hasn't yet climbed from my
balcony to the roof, as others’ cats have.
• When my garbage disposal broke down, all I had to do was
phone maintenance and it was fixed by the next day.
• Someone else clears my car of snow and ice before I go
out.
