Spelling Bee?
After 50 years of life I find most of my days filled with familiar experiences. But occasionally I experience something for the first time. Yesterday I found myself driving to a spelling bee, as a participant, dressed as JR from the TV show “Dallas.”
Who knows what tomorrow might hold - interplanetary space travel, being offered dessert but not eating it, playing my violin in tune?
March 31
I’m Not Kidding
I ran my last 20 miler on Saturday. It took 3 hours. Then, after a little macaroni and tuna I packed and moved boxes for 7 hours straight.
Sunday morning I woke up and stepped on the scale. I had gained 2 pounds.
That ain’t right.
March 24
Spring Break
Spring Break? It was neither spring, nor a break. The first leg was a drive to see Andy and family. What a hoot! We had a great time, and got to spend some time with our grandchildren, the most brilliant, beautiful, charming children on the planet from my objective point of view. It was a warm visit but cold, cold, cold weather.
Then we drove through constant rain to Cincinnati. We moved Susan into her new apartment and looked at a million houses for sale. We took a day off to get lost driving around downtown Cincinnati, have a nice fight about getting lost in the car, look at the Art Museum, the Underground Railroad Museum, and walk around the city center. Then we went to see “Tyler Perry’s Meet the Browns.” This is a Black movie. The theater was mostly filled, and Susan and I were the only white people in the place. What a hoot! They were so funny – interacting with the movie: “Don’t you believe him girl, he’s lying to you,” “Don’t you shot that boy – augghhh!” It was a riot.
I had to run a 20 miler on Saturday. There is a park close to Susan’s apartment with a path about 6 tenths of a mile around. You can run a lot of laps in 3 hours.
It was good to see my new town. I can’t believe we are living in another “I” state…
