Humor
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THUMBS UP!!!
When I first started driving, Granny cautioned me NOT to pick up hitchhikers. “You just never know,” she warned. I disobeyed her, but only once. That day, I was feeling pretty independent behind the wheel of my stick-shift, Chevy Nova, clunker when I saw a guy with his thumb out on the highway. No dummy… Read more
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YOU JUST NEVER KNOW
Bob and Joe are about as unlikely a pair as a cowboy boot and a Ked’s sneaker. Yet every morning they hold court at the local Starbucks. As customers dash in and out, there is a continual stream of “Mornin’ Bob.” “Hey there, Joe.” “How you guys this mornin?” Each recognition makes Bob puff his… Read more
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HELEN HUDSON HERE: RAISE THE ROOF!
Granny let me have a party at our house back in the 70’s with a bunch of my hippie friends. She bought potato chips and 7 Up and told me I could even crank my record player up a notch. (“In A Gadda Da Vida, Baby” was a fave.) As she retired to her bedroom,… Read more
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HERE’S TO THE ‘OLD’ NEW YEAR
New Year’s Eve finds me sitting alone in an old house dress with rolled up socks and the dog curled at my left hip. As I reflect on the ‘old’ year passing in my final blog for 2011, firecrackers pop in the distance. My teenagers are off with friends and my husband is long in… Read more
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PUT ON THE HAT
A half, bent over, old man was moving very slowly in front of me as I walked to the gym this morning. Every, single step he took was arduous, deliberate and pained me to watch. Even though my own step these days lacks some of its’ old spunk, I slowed my pace. He was working… Read more
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YOU GO GIRL!!
It started harmlessly enough. I was trudging in to Target when suddenly I heard the thump-thump beat of some pounding rap music. Approaching slowly, was a well-used, Chevy with two teenage girls in front. (It’s a good thing they had the windows rolled down or they might have gone deaf). By the time we were… Read more
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LOOK AROUND
Know why I like old people so much? They look like themSELVES. There’s no airbrushing. What you see is who they ARE. The beauty of age is that time has written in everything exactly as you lived it, line by line. If you were a joyful person, your face will be etched in tiny, smile… Read more
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GET A LIFE!!!
When my oldest first said these three words to me I really was speechless. Then I laughed. After I wiped the incredulous look off my face I just stared into her then 16 year-old eyes and said: “I have one but unfortunately for you, you’re a BIG part of it.” Now if you have teenagers… Read more
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SHHH!! DON’T TELL!!
While rinsing the chlorine off this morning in the YMCA shower, a gaggle of giggling little girls squeezed altogether in the open stall next to me. Although several others were open, they chose to rinse off together. Like spies on a secret mission, they peeked out from behind their vinyl curtain as if to be… Read more
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THE TOP TEN REASONS MOTHERS NEED DOGS BEFORE KIDS
Only one person wished me Happy Mother’s Day this morning: the dog. (Granted, no one else was up yet, but isn’t that how it is?) Actually, she greets me EVERY day as if I am the most wonderful creature on the planet. My kids used to be like that. They’re teenagers now. So on this… Read more
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