Counting compulsion…

I can be a compulsive counter. 

Compliments & Kindness

I thought about this incident last night before I fell asleep. On a past cruise, a younger woman we met (maybe in her 40s) said this to me after meeting us and chatting a while. “I don’t mean to be mean, but I thought you were his mother.” Um, really?

Crosswords, Jigsaws, & Reading

Growing up, I always envied my mother’s skill at crossword puzzles. We got a daily newspaper from Boston (probably the Globe) and she did it every day. She also had the small paperbacks of crosswords and I soon started working them as well. I was a voracious reader by age ten and did pretty well at adult crosswords by age twelve. I haven’t done many in the past years and I miss it.