They said it was bound to happen. Every family faces the same situation eventually, when you wake up one day and realize with a start that there has been a switch between the roles of parent and child...
I was having lunch with my parents who are, well, older than me. (My mother would kill me if I put her age in print.) And then it happened.
The talk turned to politics and eventually Sarah Palin. (Is there a conversation anywhere that doesn't go there?) My mother asked if I had seen the Katie Couric interview (no) and then if I had seen the Saturday Night Live skit (no, again). My mother is up-to-date on SNL...and I'm not?
Excuse me while I go tool around on YouTube and try to put the universe right again.
Here's a start for a round robin writing game. Any takers?
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It began the usual way, in the bathroom of the Lassimo Hotel.
I knew where it would end, too. Call it a premonition. Before the day was
out, I’d be t...
3 weeks ago
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