Opinions

I remember the day the husband’s older brother said to me, “Susan, oh Susan, this you need to learn: we Lincolns aren’t slaves to fashion.” Since he was wearing a hideous, stretched-out t-shirt and faded athletic shorts, he was clearly stating the obvious, and I was completely unimpressed.

It was 1968 and Rowan & Martin’s Laugh In, a rapid-fire sketch/ comedy on TV, was all the rage. A song by Pigmeat Markham, Here Comes the Judge, inspired a routine by Sammy Davis Jr., who was dressed in a black robe while his head was adorned with a white peruke wig.

I am a small person from a small town in Alabama who moved to a small town in Florida. I have a small life—some days smaller than others. On all of those days--small and large--I am a rule follower.

It’s that time of year again… school is ending and summer is coming fast. When I was a student, one of my favorite things about the end of the school year was getting my new yearbook. That leads me to a question, what is the first thing that you did when you got your yearbook?

When I was a child and Mother’s Day ushered in the month of May, we wore a corsage of red floribunda roses and ribbons if our Mother was living, or a corsage of white blooms and lace if our Mother was dearly departed.

Mother’s Day was always a favorite of mine growing up, in fact, it ranks right up there with most people. Statista.com lists Memorial Day and Thanksgiving as the top two, and for lots of good reasons… remembering soldiers who gave their lives in service and gathering to express gratitude for our blessings.

I forced myself to be quiet the other morning. “Ten minutes,” I allowed myself, with the bedroom windows flung open. That’s when the birds sang to me. It seems that birds especially love Daylight Savings Time, or is it that I was previously asleep when they were singing?