July 2021

Yesterday, July 7, 2021 was my 69th birthday. We started to celebrating on Saturday July 3 and are finishing later today, July 9.

The one special highlight of my birthday was when I got a text from my sister Kathy who was visiting my Mom, she asked if I was able to take a call from Mom. I stopped right there in the cookie aisle of Shoprite and my Mom sang HAPPY Birthday to me – it was very low but I heard every word. Now my Mom has been ill and has her voice is very low. I miss her daily calls to me at 9:00 am every day… and the last thing I expected was her singing to me. Now for as many years i can remember she would call everyone on their birthday and sing to them… so I was overjoyed when that happened yesterday… I was crying my eyes out with joy right there in the cookie aisle… Just a wonderful moment and memory!!!

On Sunday, July 4, 2021 I ran 9 miles as part of my training for a Marathon around middle of October. Paul and Gretchen were out to celebrate with us and Paul ran with me on Sunday – that is so wonderful when he runs with me. I am amazed I can do that.

I am in week 6 of the 18 week Hal Higdon training plan – this Saturday I run 10 miles, I know I can do it I try not to concentrate on the distance and just run.

We continued with a nice dinner and a Birthday Ice Cream Cake for desert, of course there were gifts, which were very thoughtful and generous.

Here we are at dinner – we had to eat inside because it was raining out on Saturday when we did the celebration

Yesterday my birthday Megan had a few gifts for me and later in the day I logged into the Roxbury Zoom Meeting for the Roxbury Writer’s Group reading of our original writing. I was first up because they do it in alphabetic order. I read my piece which is a story about John and Tommy identical twins living on opposite coasts of the country when trouble brews on the west coast and the twin on the East comes to help. There were three others that read their stories – all very different and very engaging. It is good to get together with these other writers to give each other perspective on our writing.

The following link will bring you to a recording of the Reading session by the Roxbury Writer’s Group on Wednesday, July 7, 2021 (my birthday)

https://www.facebook.com/roxburylibrary/videos/244676463825242

To cap out the day I had a quick dinner because I did not have time before the writer’s session, we had a small cake to celebrate my birthday.

Tonight, July 8, 2021 we will go to LaStrada Restaurant to finish the celebration of my birthday!

Thank you for all those that helped make this birthday very special.