Saturday, October 9, 2010

life and death and another damn summer

okay so the post below was written in 2009. Summer of 2010 was not only not better, but it was worse. A dear close friend died suddenly of a heart attack at age 57. My age. And his age. And the wrong age to die. Then my mother had open heart surgery - a triple bypass. She is 83 and she made a great recovery, for which i am very grateful. Then my dog, just like last summer, needed an operation to repair a torn ACL. The vet said last year when he fixed the left one, "the right one will tear in a year or two." And he was correct.

On top of ALL that, my son went off to his freshman year at college. And did he go to one of the many California colleges, where I might see him every other weekend or so? No, he went to Tennessee. Granted the school he chose has the best program for him. But really, 2000 miles away? Hey, isn't that a Pretenders song?