Agnes by Tony Cochran for January 11, 2021

Don’t knock dumpster diving. When I was “between husbands” my girls would always check the dumpster. We got a vacuum cleaner with a broken switch – you had to plug it in and unplug it – that we used for years. An alarm clock with an inoperative snooze button and an aluminum saucepan were also their finds. I still use that saucepan; it’s the only one on the kitchen with the measurements marked on the inside.