Until recently, I had a friend whom I’d never met. We’ve been Facebook friends for longer than four years, and we text numerous times every day but we’ve never laid eyes on each other. Now, maybe you also have friends that you’ve never met, that’s probably fairly common in today’s world with all the various electronics, but…
His name is Bob. His dad’s name is Bob. His son’s name is Bob. My husband’s name is Bob. There’s too many Bob’s in this family and so, I call him SIL. That’s short for son-in-law and he of course, calls me MIL. It works. We never get mixed up with names. My daughter Julie calls him “hot stuff.” I love that. My SIL loves cats. I mean, he REALLY loves cats. I think he loves most all animals but…
This story is about female friendships and how very special and important they are. This is a new friendship with a fun story. I’ve also been fortunate to have a 50 year friendship with my BFF but…that’s another story. Enjoy. ************************ We were 17 and had a (half-baked) plan; get on a Greyhound bus in Detroit and head for southern California. It was that simple. However for a handful of reasons, that didn’t happen…but that’s another story. We had an…
Actually, I guess I should say what I know about one rabbit in particular, the one we live with. We have a rabbit. No, wait…..a rabbit has US. He’s lived with us for over two years now. We didn’t want another pet, in fact we made a promise-deal, no more pets. We even shook on it. We’ve had dogs since our beginning. We thought it might be fun to experience the freedom to come and go without the responsibility and…
She’s almost nineteen years old now but the very first time I saw her and fell in love with her, she was brand new. A girlfriend told me many years ago to never to buy anything unless I loved it. I loved that car. Her name is Little White Car, my grandson Bobby named her when he was a toddler. She’s been fun to drive all these years and perfect for the many top-down months we have in sunny California….
It was 1963. We were nineteen, still teenagers. Nineteen is barely through childhood and there we were, both married and living in Connecticut. We each knew 3 people; our husbands, each other and each other’s husband. Bobbie was from a suburb of Chicago and I came from an area south of Detroit. From the moment we said “Hi’, we both knew that we were destined to be best of friends, and we were….for 59 years. Fifty nine years and never…
DISRUPTION- disturbance or problems which interrupt an event, activity, process OR 7 YEARS! In 2015, Donald Trump announced his intention to run for the Republican presidential nomination. That feels like a lifetime ago. Hillary Clinton was his opponent and the first female to ever run for president of the USA. The drama was high and so was the confidence of the Democratic Party. It was the shock heard ’round the world when it was Mr. Trump who won and was…
To Julie and Melissa who hated seeing us sad and were happy to see our joy return. ************************* My mom always told me that when she left this planet, she’d hang around and leave little signs that she was still near. She’s done just that. Soon after she left, my daughters Julie and Melissa and I began finding coins. Lots of coins. Everybody finds coins, right? Lucky pennies? But telling you HOW, WHEN and WHERE we find these coins, that’s…
We’d only been gone a few days. We’d been in covid hiding for months and we needed a Pacific “fix” real bad. It was the end of October and the Monterey coast was beginning to open up to tourists. We all thought covid was leaving and normalcy was about to return…..how silly of all of us. Omicron was just around every corner. We kept our distance from people and instead spent our time with nature. We filled up our senses,…
(He was almost two years old when I wrote this, he’s now ten.) It’s early, early morning. When they pull up, he’s all cuddled in his baby quilt, securely fastened in his car seat and sound asleep. I can feel his mama’s worry when I open the car door and slip in. I keep her talking with my questions. She’s scared. She has a hard time trying to tell me what’s wrong. It makes me realize it hasn’t ever…