It was me! On Threads when I woke up and saw he was still speaking. I’m so tickled it had such reach!

I’ll always remember when he found a deer bone on our land and ran back with it, SO PROUD. Legend, indeed. He will be very missed.

“Oh there’s more. And this is just too much. One of them lives out of town but she mailed me a big box from Talbot’s last week. Of course none of it fit but I exchanged it for a beautiful outfit. Head to toe!”

WOW, Marion, who are these friends!?! ….

As I was dropping her off, she said she has a dinner tonight at Ruth’s Chris with
two friends. They are treating her and insisting she gets steak and lobster.

Wow, Marion, who are these friends?! ……

Today one of our errands was stopping at Brennan’s, which I learned was solely so I could pick out my own Xmas present. I said no, of course, we do this song and dance every year, but then I chose Lingonberry jam. It’s wrapped and under my tree now. ….

She’s also had SO MUCH GOOD STUFF in her life, and tells those stories in equal measure. My favorites are the ones from the years she spent in California before kids, when she and her husband had their own avocado tree. ….

Over the years I’ve learned a lot about Marion’s life, and one of many tragedies she’s endured was losing her adult daughter at a pretty young age. She has shown me her picture, a few times, quietly. Quietly. …..

It’s pretty widely agreed upon that they generate about a billion for the economy, far offsetting their drain. Make an argument to dismantle because they’re weird and shitty, fine. But the economic argument doesn’t hold water.

Isn’t the royal family an enormous boon to the economy? Seems like a call to abolish a profitable Ferris wheel because it isn’t hydroelectric.

And the ambassador to Israel is an evangelical Christian