Recently my wife hosted her “circle”.  In the Presbyterian world this is a group of women with some degree of commonality, i.e. status, age, etc. who meet once a month and discuss things I am not permitted to know and choose not to speculate upon.

My assistance was summoned in the form of cleaning up and making other preparation.  While I was wrestling the vacuum cleaner around I could only think, “While this is not onerous it was not in my retirement agenda.”   I was also persuaded to make coffee and remain in basement until end of activities.