Friday, January 1, 2010 It’s a new day, a new year, a new decade. Time to erase the blackboard, change the channel, turn the page. New Year’s resolutions? Nope. Not me. Not this year. This year I’m workin’ on last years promises to myself. This year I’m transforming from dork to geek. This year, I WILL figure out how to put phone numbers in my home phone so I can push one button instead of a bunch of numbers that…
THE BACK SEAT It began many, many years ago in the back seat of a Chevrolet Suburban……….. NOT what you’re thinking! It was my girlfriend and me back there and our husbands up front. We liked it that way. It was a big vehicle and we were kinda far back. Far enough with music playing from the radio and two men conversing and laughing up front that they couldn’t hear any of the whispers going on in the back. We…
He knew right where he wanted to be, that grandson of mine. He hurried into the office, bought a permit for $7.50 and drove us right to the spot he’d researched the day before. “This is it Momsmom and Bobo, we’re here.” Kyle was our first grandchild and as such had the right-of-privilege to name his family however it worked for him. “Bobo” came from “Lobo” which is what I often call my husband…an old high school nickname. He pulled…
The Facebook-Posting Nazi We all know that little saying about opinions, right? This morning I received a private message from a young man I’ve known for almost ever, commanding that I stop sharing and reposting everything I see on Facebook. He went on to say that I should share only some things…make them special. Gee, when I see something that hits me, I DO think it’s special and that’s why I enjoy posting it…to share with my friends I’m disappointed…
CHRISTMAS 1984 I’ve been alive for many Christmases but 1984 is the one that will never be forgotten. It was our first California Christmas and it was suppose to be part of a dream, but it was more like a nightmare that seemed to have no end. My family arrived in California on September 1st. I found a job, my husband found a great job, my girls met new friends and began school, and we contracted to have a home…
I’m guessing different parts of our country have their favorite boxes of chocolates. I was raised on Sander’s in Detroit and I still think maybe it’s the best. Here in California, we have See’s Candy. It’s good. It’s REAL good! Makes me wish I had some right now. One Christmas when our daughters were young adults, we decided to have some fun with them. There were four of them and four partners of one sort or another. We all came…
LIMO NIGHT Every year, two Saturdays before Christmas we took a family ride. An all-together-in-one-vehicle family ride. It began with 11 of us but some years we had as many as 17. We called it “Limo Nite”. But the first time we did it, it didn’t have a name and only two of us knew what was going on. We mailed “save-the-date” notes to our girls and their family way ahead of time so there’d be no excuses no, “but…