Editor’s note: This is the last story in the collection. Tomorrow is my 82nd Birthday. I want to say I am lucky. You might not think so if you could see me clumping along in a full-length hip-to-foot-leg brace with a walker. I feel the eternal optimist. I’m lucky because I can hear without a … Continue reading
Category Archives: California
My Daughter, My Friend
I woke up in the Hospital in Tucson, Arizona at 3:00 P. M. I lay there a while grabbing at my stomachs to be sure the baby was really gone, and that I didn’t have some weird dream. I was flat, so the nightmare of labor really was over. I came to the hospital the … Continue reading
Mrs. Mc and Mrs. K
When my mother visited us in California, she came complete with three suitcases and a trunk filled with old clothes for me to “make over”. The first evening she announced that she was here to stay forever, that she always hated that “son of a bitch”, Bill Gainer, her second husband, and it would serve … Continue reading
My Five Guys
When John decided he didn’t want to be married any more, after 27 years of placating and tip toeing around the edge of a volcano, I was completely engulfed in a crushing sense of failure. How could this come on so suddenly without me realizing the marriage was crumbling? This would really ruin any ones … Continue reading