I was in the second grade. It was recess. I was playing with my friends outside in our designated area. I saw the green Plymouth cruise slowly by and pull over to the curb. I ran over to it. My father leaned toward the passenger window. “What did you want?” he asked. “A girl” I blurted out. “You got her” he replied. I jumped up and down with happy. That’s all I remember from May 1st, 1952. Her crib…
I saw a CV-19 pandemic post today. It was of a pigeon sitting up on a roof. He was overlooking the bare city and telling the pigeon perched next to him how bummed he was because there were no cars or people around to poop on. It reminded me of a time, BP (before pandemic), when I was witness to a Pigeon-Person war. I was not a participant, only an observer. The pigeons? They were my friends. The…
Within the past 30-plus years, we’ve felt so fortunate to share our lives with four awesome furry friends. Bartles and Jaymes were bother Schnauzers. We had no intention of coming home with two dogs the day we walked passed the pet shop and saw those two black and gray little furballs huddled together. We stood and watched them for a while then decided to go in and just hold them for a few minutes…..that’s all, just hold them. I’ll…
His name was Bob but we all knew him as Woody. I don’t remember him ever being called Bob. He was Woody, and in my opinion the coolest guy in high school. Actually, my opinion and a whole bunch of other girls from a whole bunch of other schools. I think it was his attitude as much as his good looks that captured. He had an attitude that probably took Hollywood actors years to perfect. Woody just had it. It…
my mom died. It’s still hard. I still miss her horrible. I still think of her every day and I still wish I could talk to her just one more time. There are things I wish I would have told her, questions I wished I would have asked.. Now? They’ll go unsaid…..unasked. She wasn’t the best mom and sometimes I thought she was the worst. I wasn’t the best daughter and sometimes I think I was the worst. But,…
We were finishing up our morning running around. Walgreens for a prescription. WalMart for dog food. And Safeway for produce AND A BAG OF CHIPS! If I ever write a story about Bobfone and all his strange behaviors, one of them will be grocery store lines. He MUST have the best line! He goes up and down looking for the least amount of people in line, the people with the least amount of groceries in their baskets, the…
I have never, EVER been fired from a job. When I was twelve, babysitting was my first job. I read stories, played games and watched TV with my little charges. I was always in high demand. I worked at the Detroit Dragstrip when I was only 15 and thought it was funny to put a frozen burger in between a bun and watch for the reaction. I never got caught and I never got fired. I worked at the…
Funny how ten years can be such a big difference in age when we’re young and then mean nothing at all as we become older. Dolly is my cousin, and that was genetic luck for me. But it goes way deeper than that because she’s also my friend. She’s from a family of five girl cousins; Dolly, Sissy, Donna, Ginger and Linda. Ginger was second from youngest, I was a year older than her. I shared a huge part…
Cockroaches….. I’ve known a few….. up close and kinda personal. The very first one I met was on a hot Sacramento summer day…..triple digit hot. It was my day off and I had a list of things to accomplish, a this-will-take-all-day-long list. I started out thirsty so stopped at the convenience store on the corner and filled the largest cup halfway with ice and the rest with Diet Coke. Pushed the straw through the hole in the lid, paid…
It’s Homecoming time of the year. Remember? First is finding the perfect outfit; dress, suit or sports jacket. Then the excitement of getting ready and making sure you look exactly how you want to look. ……………….. Let’s pretend your house will be the meeting spot because…..everyone’s mere months away from having a license to drive but, lucky you….. you have awesome “uber-parents,” always willing to do more than their share to get you and your friends safely to and…