I Need More

Jo An Fox-Wright Maddox
4 min readJan 15, 2021

I love my house. It’s just the size I need: big eat-in kitchen, big living room with high ceilings. A fireplace. Comfortable furniture that’s almost animal proof. A good-sized master bedroom with a high ceilings and French doors that open onto a deck with a gazebo. A master bath with a separate bath tub and shower. Two other bedrooms, one for a guest room and the other for a den. Lots of closets. An attached garage, now with a garage door opener, compliments of my children, who gave it to me for Christmas. The washer and dryer are out there, too, instead of down a winding staircase with a concrete floor at the bottom to kill myself…

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Jo An Fox-Wright Maddox

Former English professor ponders life, love, and how to leap tall buildings in a single bound.