Of wood floors and work
I have vivid memories of my mother cleaning and re-waxing our wood floors when I was young. It was a hands-and-knees job, using Murphy’s Oil Soap followed by Johnson’s Paste Wax. After the latter was applied and laboriously buffed, the floors gleamed. And a kid walking around a corner too quickly in socks was almost guaranteed to wipe out entirely. (This is not hypothetical.) Once, she borrowed our next-door neighbor’s tall machine—I recall it being the size of a heavy,…
