August 2019 – FIRST DATE, WORST DATE EVER!

Chuck’s Drive-in Movie Date

August 31, 2019August 30, 2019 Posted in California, dating, drinking, high school, necking, Pontiac, worstLeave a comment

Chuck drove his powder blue Bonneville Pontiac to pick up his new girlfriend for their drive-in movie date his senior year of high school. He had tricked out the interior of the car with his two taxidermy quail in the car’s back window on a bed of shag carpeting. When he drove the car at… Continue reading Chuck’s Drive-in Movie Date

Dumb Dog Dad’s Doo Doo Date

August 31, 2019August 31, 2019 Posted in air freshener, animal training, cars, dating, dogs, doo doo, relationshipsLeave a comment

Chuck had two Keeshounds named Baron and Zoe. Baron was a little bit spastic. At any rate, Chuck mentioned to a friend that he needed to find new homes for the pair, and the friend offered to take the dogs. Chuck had over half a bag of dog food left. He didn’t want to waste… Continue reading Dumb Dog Dad’s Doo Doo Date

Usually I Blog, Today I Cleaned

August 30, 2019August 29, 2019 Posted in brother, California, cleaning, company, daughter, dogs, hair, memoir, philosophy, relationships, relatives, restaurant, Roomba3 Comments

Company is coming. It’s amazing what that will do to a person who doesn’t put things away daily, except maybe keys and dog treats. I look around the house. It’s an utter mess. Newspapers I have yet to read, books I have yet to read, sewing I have yet to sew, clean laundry in baskets,… Continue reading Usually I Blog, Today I Cleaned

Worst Mom Ever

August 29, 2019August 28, 2019 Posted in baseball, best, brownies, California, children, daughter, eyebrows, humor, memoir, parenting, relationships, son, worstLeave a comment

(re-run) As a mother, choose your words and actions carefully, for eighteen years! Mom to three grown children, I still hear about the horrible things I said and the awful things I did to them as children. Oldest daughter with her dad’s dark heavy eyebrows: me, to her as a teen, “You might want to… Continue reading Worst Mom Ever

Dating and other Things Over Fifty

August 27, 2019August 27, 2019 Posted in California, colonoscopy, dating, dinner, doctor, nurse, phone, phone numbers, play dateLeave a comment

Sherry didn’t get her first colonoscopy when she turned fifty. She put it off. Did she have one done at 51? No, she did not. 52? No, she did not. Finally, Sherry scheduled it to be done at 53. She was so nervous when she went in that the nurses asked Joe, a regular patient… Continue reading Dating and other Things Over Fifty

Theft of your Intellectual Property

August 26, 2019August 25, 2019 Posted in author, California, critique group, editor, friends, mentor, trust, writing4 Comments

If you are a writer, then what you write belongs to you as your intellectual property. Be careful of critique groups and the people with whom you share your work. You must have an iron-clad agreement that your work is your work, and no one else is allowed to use it. This is a sad… Continue reading Theft of your Intellectual Property

Get Some Facetime

August 25, 2019August 24, 2019 Posted in California, cell phones, high school, humor, memoir, Millennials, relationships, school, school shooting, student march, vote, waiting roomLeave a comment

As I stepped into the waiting room at my chiropractor’s office, three women and one guy were looking down at their cell phones, sitting in a symmetrical pattern amongst the u-shaped chairs. Feeling giddy from my fifty-five minute massage I said,” Well, this looks like a blog post to me! You’re all on your phones!”… Continue reading Get Some Facetime

FIRST DATE, WORST DATE EVER!

Susan Elya

Month: August 2019