Confessions of a Grandma

 Tom at Sightings Over Sixty  took me back to my daughter's teenage years with a post about tennis. It happened to be Amy's birthday and she was in the high school tennis club until she went into her dark emo phase. Her major celebrity crush throughout, though, was Bjorn Borg. I sent her a Facebook birthday greeting, reminding her that we were all aging and including  then and now pictures of Bjorn Borg (whom we did get to see play in person at a tournament in Stratton, VT, two years in a row). Then Now Amy was very quick to point out that he is still a very good-looking man. I would agree😊.

 

  It's too late now, but I did tell Don that had I known of his hoarding habits from the beginning there would not have been a second date. I am far from a minimalist, but I am also completely nonsentimental. My first husband never quite got over the fact that I got rid of our daughter's baby cradle -- something she slept in for maybe a month and then later used for doll storage -- when we moved from our first house. He brought it up when I took very little when we divorced. My late husband was definitely a collector, but of very specific items. It all went to auction. He had everything catalogued and pretty much ready to go knowing none of it interested me on its own merits. He called it our retirement fund because collecting (buying and selling antiques) was also his business. Now there is Don who struck me as a man of very simple needs when I first met him. I never got a tour of his storage units and all his valuable stuff. I was clueless until he moved in a year ago. By t...

Cute little weed, common centaury  Reading blogs provides food for thought, new knowldge, or a chuckle to my day. I guess blogs have replaced the old daily newspaper as reading to go with morning coffee. Today I learned from Gigi  in Hawaii that my home state of Vermont does not require a degree from law school -- one needs only pass the Bar Exam. Certainly the exam is not a walk in the park and even law school graduates don't always pass it, but I had assumed a law school degree would be a prerequisite. Only recently I heard that Kim Kardashian passed the Bar in California so I learned that CA did not require a formal law education, but I didn't realize it was the same case for VT. See, live and learn. And Gigi's blog is often very educational. She does the research! I took one of those career aptitude tests in college. I had pretty close to zero aptitude for a law career. Fortunately, I never had my heart set on becoming a lawyer. Jenn  in Canada is a fount of informati...