My Fixer-Upper Man
Bruce and I have been married fifteen years, and we?ve yet to live in a finished house.
By Hannah Jones
When I first met him, Bruce was living in a string hammock under a plastic tarp next to a construction site on a lake in Winthrop, Maine. He owned a fifty-dollar truck spray-painted with this sage advice: "Honk if you love Janis Joplin." He also possessed assorted tools, a sleeping bag, two knives, a toothbrush, and several changes of clothes. Lacking plumbing or cooking facilities, he washed in lake water and subsisted mostly on wild berry frappes from the Dairy Delight, where I worked.Bruce was building a camp of his own design for his father.
