Whaddya do when you’re 40, divorced, and run into your high-school boyfriend who’s also divorced and your heart goes back to that old pitter-pat? What WE did was hold tighter this time and do all those things that were forbidden to us as teenagers. Not that we didn’t do them then, it was just a lot easier and way more fun when no person or rule could stop us. And so, no longer teenagers with rules, we threw caution to…
First thing I can say about “the aging process” is…..it stinks! But then there’s all those positive quotes I read often on Facebook and in books about how it’s a privilege denied to many and although that’s true, still it’s a damn, miserable process. Once upon a while ago, I worked in a lovely Residential Care Facility for the Elderly and I had the honor of meeting, caring for and becoming friends with about 80 wonderful people who lived there….
I’m gonna tell you this story and I don’t expect anyone except one person to believe it. The one person is Bobfone, because he was there, he saw it. Now, he’d be the first person to accuse me of “embellishing” (that’s his polite word when really he wants to say EXAGGERATING or worse yet, lying.) But that’s not gonna happen with story UNLESS I’m under-embellishing. No way could I over-inflate this one. No friggin’ way! It was a warm, sunny…
My daughter mentioned it after spending the night in our guest room. She heard strange sounds that scared her, like Alligator Lizards hissing in the middle of the night…right outside the bedroom window. I guess I dismissed it and didn’t think about it again until my cousin was visiting for a week. We talked about it one morning after I asked how she was sleeping. “I guarantee you something’s outside that window in the middle of the night!” I…