I always thought we’d take the entire ride together. I thought one of us would stand at the others grave and sob uncontrollable sobs of good-bye with a never-able-to-mend broken heart. We’d been a girlfriend-pair for well over 50 years, almost joined at the hips…..two crazies, laughing and making fun of everything. That’s how we made it; that’s how we got by…laughing. Laughing when we should have been crying and without each other, we would have…
Today was the day. No matter what didn’t get done, today we’d accomplish our goal at the DMV. If you live in California, you know how scary it can be trying to get something…..ANYTHING done at the DMV, Department of Motor Vehicles. If you don’t live here I don’t know what to say other than well…..I don’t LIKE saying this but it’s a mess. Does ANYONE get trained for those jobs? ANYONE? JUST ONE PERSON EVEN?…
My brother-in-law, an awesome man, was a pyromaniac. He didn’t really set fire to houses but he made great fires in fireplaces, huge outside firepits and he LOVED 4th of July fireworks. So, he wasn’t a real pyro and in truth, he isn’t even my brother-in-law any longer but he was when this firey story took place. He had a job that allowed him the gift of time during Fall and Winter months. Every year, he and my…
Aretha sang about it, but it’s way more than a song. It was something ever-present and good that kinda seems to have pretty much disappeared in today’s world. But, it’s not all gone. …
I wonder how many times I reminded my girls upon their leaving for an evening to please remember to call if they needed a ride home or anything else. They’d raise their right hand and swear they wouldn’t get into a car with anyone who’d ben drinking. I certainly didn’t have to worry about THEM. MY girls didn’t drink!!!!! Right? We never got a call-for-help through all their growing up years. THEY however, got a few from US when we’d…
I wasn’t happy about about leaving my Catholic school friends and being forced to go to public school with non-Catholic kids in 8th grade when I was thirteen. I mean…..they were goin’ to limbo, right? Couldn’t get into heaven…..they weren’t Catholic! I even wondered if I’d get in trouble for bein’ friends with them? Maybe lose my spot in heaven? However, in the beginning I only had one friend anyways and she was Catholic. But, something magical happened in that…
My Doris Day Story She’d been my very best friend for years and years…..well over thirty, and I never knew she loved Doris Day. I never knew she played Doris Day CD’s on her way to work some mornings. But when she saw Cypress Inn one day while we were walking Carmel in California, well…..we were goin’ in, and THAT’S when I found out what a fan she was. Cypress Inn is located on a corner in the heart of…
I belong to a closed group on Facebook, or maybe it’s private…..I don’t knowthe difference. They’re my family on my father’s side. My aunts and uncles are gone, so mostly it’s my cousins and their adult kids…..my second-cousins.I’ve met most of them, some not in person but their personality shows with the things they write back and forth in this group, so I feel like I know them. There’s a particular family consisting of six siblings; one awesome woman and…
Bartles and Jaymes were our sons. They were brothers…..dog brothers. We saw them in a pet-boutique window one day as we were walking by. We weren’t shopping for pets but there they were, two adorable little puppies. One had a very sad, scared look on his face and he was holding on to his brothers back with his two front paws. I felt so bad for them. I thought we should go inside and pretend like we were interested…
Once a submarine was submerged, the only communication permitted was Family-Grams. Wives were allowed to send six messages each patrol consisting of 15 words. The first word had to be who it was going to and the last, who it was from so in reality…..13 words, six times over three months! So, what can be said in THIRTEEN words? Oh, and the messages were first read and approved before they were sent. Zip point zero privacy! I never figured…