Normal will, I suspect, like the past, have sharp curves and potholes and inane stop signs and red lights, loud and noisy people and kind and caring ones. And there will be smooth and level stretches ahead.
Author: teresafannin
The Boy…
I first saw Tom at a corporate training program in Princeton New Jersey. The newly enacted ERISA, the 1974 Employment Retirement Income Security Act, written by lawyers and regulated by bureaucrats was a tome of egregious government speak. Tom was delegated with parsing and translating its application to regular folks like us in the divisions….
ENGAGE
“Grandmommy,” one of my baby grands would say when telling me a story while playing with my dollhouse. “Grandmommy, the girl goes in the front door. And then she goes to the kitchen and makes breakfast. And then she goes to the office upstairs to work.” And the story can continue to each room in…
THE GETAWAY POSITION
Craig Breedlove recently died. He was 86. I was kinda surprised, hadn’t thought about him in years. Brought back memories of the Mojave Desert, and the Bonneville Salt Flats. He studied aeronautics, was a race car driver, and was called the King of Speed…clocking 600 mph in 1964, never quite making his 800 mph target…
THE MISSIONS
We are well past my birthday. As a kid I was teased a lot for Phil sticking his nose out of his burrow and commenting on the weather. So Mom and I went to mass for my day, which was a feast day, The Feast of the Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Forty days…