https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Fri, 15 May 2026 22:39:56 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 https://wist.info/kerr-jean/83080/ https://wist.info/kerr-jean/83080/#respond Mon, 30 Mar 2026 17:02:10 +0000 Dave https://wist.info/?p=83080 Oftentimes, in the evening after they have finished spreading the fertilizer, the writer and his wife sit on the fence — with a wonderful sense of “togetherness” — and listen to the magic symphony of the crickets.
I can understand that. Around our house, we’re pretty busy, and of course we’re not the least bit integrated, but nevertheless my husband and I often sit together in the deepening twilight and listen to the sweet, gentle slosh-click, slosh-click of the dishwasher. He smiles and I smile. Oh, it’s a golden moment.

Jean Kerr (1922-2003) American author and playwright [b. Bridget Jean Collins]
Essay (1955-08-01), “Greenwich, Anyone?” Vogue Magazine
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Collected in Please Don't Eat the Daisies (1957). ]]> https://wist.info/kerr-jean/83080/feed/ 0 83080 https://wist.info/king-stephen/35776/ https://wist.info/king-stephen/35776/#respond Thu, 15 Dec 2016 06:08:03 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=35776 Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn’t carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.

Stephen King (b. 1947) American author
“Stephen King’s Most Memorable Books of 2007,” Entertainment Weekly (21 Dec 2007) ]]> https://wist.info/king-stephen/35776/feed/ 0 35776