For thought that is.

(Posted by Gayle)

Is it just a day for yearly giving thanks or will it become a year of daily thanks giving?  You decide….

Happy Thanksgiving….

That is indeed a very good question.  Let’s answer it once and for all!

(Posted by Ron)

By now you know about our age difference.  As I travel through the www I read about so many people asking this and other age related questions like;  “should I date someone older or younger than me?”  “How can I tell if it’s right for me?”  “What happens when we age?”  “Will (the older partner) die and leave me alone too soon?”

Fortunately I have two very valid life experiences to help me answer those questions with more authority than you are apt to see on many of the blogs. Read the rest of this entry »

Why Santa Clause of course!

(Posted by Ron)

When I was a kid Christmas always seemed to be over much too soon.  We would wake up and come down to see what Santa had left for us.  After my last sister left home that was seldom a surprise since I knew where mom and dad hid everything.  One Christmas they actually forgot one of the presents but I was smart enough to not say anything.  Besides, it was just a book.  I got it a few weeks later. Read the rest of this entry »

The college year (yes, that’s right, year):

(Posted by Ron)

Throughout high school I was sure I wanted to go on to college and study medicine. I couldn’t imagine anything more fun or lucrative than being a doctor. I was the first in my family to enter college and that was a fact of some pride to my parents. I received a shock to my system when I entered Marshall University as a freshman intending to follow a pre-med path. College was definitely not high school.  Not having to study in high school meant I never really learned how to study. Subjects that came easily to me before were suddenly challenging and I was not prepared for that challenge. In my first semester as a “college man” I earned a staggering 0.9 average on a 4.0 scale. Something had to change. Read the rest of this entry »

I’m still not sure, but it is a looooooong way from the Windy City.

(Posted by Gayle)

Recipe for Making a Little Princess (who will grow up to be “a May”.)

1. Two 40 year old parents.
2. No living brothers and sisters.
3. Add a pinch of unresolved grief due to a son who died 15 years earlier at 3 days of age.
4. Make sure dad’s business is booming when she is born.  You need lots of money to make a Little Princess.
5. Live in a high rise brownstone apartment a few miles away from downtown Chicago.
6. Send her to the University of Chicago Laboratory School (I was among the “handful” of elementary students mentioned in this article).
7. Don’t encourage playmates of her same age.
8. Do encourage her to be adult-like, a great little hostess, and exceptionally polite (make sure she raises her hand and is called on before speaking if adults are having adult conversations in her presence.)
9. Dress her in “ruffle butts” .
10. Make sure she has a designer wardrobe (way before designer wardrobes are cool) from Marshall Fields with matching Keds for each outfit.  (She can only wear tennis shoes to her la-te-da private school. This will ensure that she will never really fit in with kids her own age.)
11. Inspire her to be like her contemporary – Caroline Kennedy (do not encourage her to be a democrat or catholic though!)
12. Take her to adult functions.  Do not leave her with babysitters.
13. Vacation with her in Jamaica at the Playboy Club for her Christmas break in first grade (who needs Mickey and Minnie when you’ve got Hugh and the bunnies?!)
14. Give her everything you wanted and never had.
15. Make sure she isn’t spoiled.
16. If number 15 seems impossible in-light of number 14, heavy helpings of guilt can be used for counterbalance.

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