Door sticks and ice cubes

If you’ve never met your son’s girlfriend and she’s coming to dinner, try to make a good impression in case you end up liking her. We did, and we did.

Yep, they’re still married. We still like her. Sometimes, I look at the stick for our sliding glass door and remember the occasion of that first visit.

“Hugh, we’ve gotta paint the stick in the door,” I told my husband.

To make it look official, we pai…