You aren’t getting any younger – says who?

Age is a Many Splintered Thing~~~

Suddenly Single in Marin

Dylan Thomas was right.

Don’t go gentle into the night…

Linda, 75, calls them “Old Dolls” – elderly women trying desperately to look decades younger.

Her neighbor, Eve, is 80 and admits to being around-60. Eve wears a Joey Heatherton (‘60’s) blonde wig, a padded, push-up bra, leggings, spiky false eyelashes and fake fingernails. She shops in the teenage section and buys all of her jewelry at H&M. She ruefully admits her days of wearing super, high-heels are over…she defers to trendy leopard print ballet slippers. Eve says, “When you are hot, you’re hot!”

More than once, men have admired Eve from the back- and are quite surprised to find out- she’s older – like 40 years older, than they thought.

Getting Around

Eve refuses to use a walker in public. She has a cane, decorated with pastel ribbons, reserved for special occasions. (i.e. long walks)

Her close, male…

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My Top 10 Florida Observations

Top 10 things I learned about Florida

1. The drivers in Florida are infamous for being are the worst in the nation.
2. The produce is a lot more expensive- and you are spoiled in California.
3. Everything is located in a strip mall: doctors, dentists, gourmet restaurants.
4. There are big box stores everywhere- BJ’s, Wal-Mart, Kmart, Marshall’s.
5. Dunkin’ Donuts is on every street corner; Floridians eat a lot of donuts.
6. It’s hard to find a Wi-Fi cafés.  It is hard to find a “coffee shop.”
7. There are no bookstores. (Those two or three Barnes & Noble don’t count)
8. Rain can fall in buckets, and miraculously cause traffic to crawl – then clear up instantaneously.
9. The summertime clouds in Florida are breathtakingly spectacular. The hot, sticky humidity isn’t.

10. Everyone goes to the beach on the weekends- and it’s impossible to find a parking place- especially in light of the fact they just razed an 800-car parking garage.

And…There is a reason 1,000 people

per day

move to Florida.

All my Life …I was on Tender hooks

 

 

We are a family of Fishermen and Women.

We all were given fishing poles for Christmas.  My brother is a world-famous fishing guide – dividing his time between Montana and various Argentina fishing sites.

When were were excited about a jaunt to a famous fishing hole – we might say,  “We are on tenderhooks.”

Little did we know…however, this Christmas – hooked on the holidays as we are- we might tie a few flys…and discuss pronunciations:

Tenters were originally large wooden frames which were used as far back as the 14th century in the process of making woollen cloth. …

By the mid-18th century, the phrase “on tenterhooks” came to mean being in a state of tension, uneasiness, anxiety, or suspense, i.e. figuratively stretched like the cloth on the tenter.

via Daily Prompt: Tenterhooks