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This Month's Contents

Podcast Interview................................. "My Illness Was a Blessing"

News and Politics.........  Tony Hoffart
Current Issues..............  Lindsey Kay
Technology...................  Natasha Stillman
Humor...........................  Vicola England, Kirk Starr
Science.........................  Paxton Daryl Branson
World Events................  Ilias Kountoupis, Peter McCarthy
Sports...........................  Patricia Volonakis Davis
Religion.........................  Mr. Snowy
Women's Issues............  Charlotte Steggs
Leading a Good Life......  Tom Hames,  Miranda Krebbs
On Growing Older.......... Cyd Madsen, Michelle Solange
Motherhood...................  Grace Bon, Amy Flanigan

This Month's Guest Writer................  Amber Burke

About the Writers at Harlots' Sauce Radio
Love Out of Your Comfort Zone

Tom Hames
email this writer at: tomhames@harlotssauce.com






I was talking to one of the guys at work today and the conversation turn ed
to the cost of living and how it is affecting different people. This fellow is a
fairly big guy, in his mid- forties.

He leaned over toward me and spoke so his voice was just more than a
whisper, "Don't laugh at me, but I color my mom's hair. It saves her
about 45 bucks at the beauty parlor.” He straightened back up and started
talking in a normal voice, “She buys the box of color and I go to her house
and do it for her."

He took the time to explain about the smell of it and how he puts on the
plastic gloves and massages it into her hair.

Then he said, "I wish they made those gloves bigger because
sometimes I tear them up when I put my big hands in them. One time I did it
without the gloves and it sure made a mess."

I smiled as he kept talking and I tried to imagine this big guy standing there,
carefully putting hair color on his mother's head. To me, it was an example
of love in action. People know that we love them when we go out of our way
to do something that is uncomfortable or out of character.

When the break was over he walked away smiling. I'm sure he was still
thinking about his mother.

It was pretty awesome.
                                                                                 ----May 2008

Mom. Clairol, and Me

Tom Hames
email this writer at: tomhames@harlotssauce.com