September 2021 – Page 4 – FIRST DATE, WORST DATE EVER!

The Sprinkler Man and the Glass Coffee Table

September 2, 2021September 1, 2021 Posted in accident, angel, children, coffee table, disaster, house, husband, Mama bear, memoir, repair man, sprinklersLeave a comment

(re-run) When my two oldest children were 5 and 2, we moved from one house in town to another. We didn’t gain any square footage, but the new house had a huge yard, front and back, and forty trees in a better neighborhood. The house had been vacant for months. The sprinklers weren’t working in… Continue reading The Sprinkler Man and the Glass Coffee Table

The White Album

September 1, 2021 Posted in aging, Beatles, best, board and care, California, caregiver, dancing, flirting, humor, memoir, relationshipsLeave a comment

(re-run) The last time I saw the Beatles cover band in the Santa Cruz mountains hippie town of Felton, I noticed that most of the crowd was coupled off, and most of the couples didn’t dance. They were too old, having been die-hard Beatles fans for fifty years. It was a shame. The floor is… Continue reading The White Album