Author: Ellen Rockne

Alice

Posted: December 16, 2013 at 3:19 PM in Aging (& Retirement) Family & Relatives Friends & Neighbors Humor & Whimsy

I’m old enough to wear red boots any time I want, she said. She wanted to be buried in them, but her son had them put her in taupe pumps instead. She wore red all winter long so the ambulance could find her quicker if she fell in a snow bank & also it hides … [Read More]

Aimless

Posted: December 16, 2013 at 3:19 PM in Friends & Neighbors Humor & Whimsy Personal Growth

We always thought she was riding backwards until the day she pointed out that the horse didn’t really have any idea which way he was going either. (Going forward sometimes takes a long time going back, she said.) (Piles of stuff she hasn’t looked at since college)

Aiming Low

Posted: December 16, 2013 at 3:19 PM in Humor & Whimsy Romance & Relationships

I need you to come home soon, she said. I’m walking around like a woman who’s let herself go.

Afterlife

Posted: December 16, 2013 at 3:19 PM in Children & Parenting Family & Relatives Humor & Whimsy

He wouldn’t eat lobster the first time. He said it looked too dangerous & he couldn’t be sure it wasn’t watching from the astral plane or wherever lobsters went when they tired of being food items.

Aerobics

Posted: December 16, 2013 at 3:19 PM in Humor & Whimsy Sports & Fitness

Death take me now & spare me the pain, she said. It was difficult for me to get that excited. Get a grip, I said, it’s only aerobics.

Advice

Posted: December 16, 2013 at 3:19 PM in Aging (& Retirement) Family & Relatives Humor & Whimsy

If they’d listen to me this world’d be a better place, my grandpa used to say & my grandma always nodded & said, you’re right. Someday we’re going to kick ourselves for that one & he’d frown & turn off his hearing aid.

Adventure of a Lifetime

Posted: December 16, 2013 at 3:19 PM in Aging (& Retirement) Children & Parenting Friends & Neighbors Humor & Whimsy Personal Growth Retirement Travel & Moving

off on another adventure of a lifetime & hoping he won’t forget halfway through this time

Advantage

Posted: December 16, 2013 at 3:19 PM in Children & Parenting Humor & Whimsy Sports & Fitness

I’m fastest, he said, when I’m the one that gets to say go.

Acting Challenge

Posted: December 16, 2013 at 3:19 PM in Friends & Neighbors Humor & Whimsy Personal Growth

important to look knowledgable, but not important enough to actually know anything, so he’ll probably do fine as an actor

Abstract Love

Posted: December 16, 2013 at 3:19 PM in Animals & Pets Humor & Whimsy

I’m an animal lover in the abstract, he said. What does that mean? I said. It means I try not to think about them a whole lot, because pet hair makes me queasy.