[cal828]

I am alone most of the time except for my 3 dogs. My son and daughter both live in Little Rock. She is a physician and he works for a TV station as a video editor. I have until fairly recently spent a lot of time in Little Rock seeing after my daughter's 3 kids and her dogs too while she was delivering babies at night, but I guess I won't be doing that anymore as the kids are teenagers now and don't need as much looking after. Seems strange that they no longer need me. Can't tell you how many times I've had to take them to soccer or football or baseball or basketball or to the doctor when they were sick or to the orthodontist. My daughter is a great mother, but when you're a doctor you don't get to take off to do a lot of things for your kids.

My son comes home about once a month for the weekend. We usually binge watch something on Netflix like Ozark. Not only does he work in TV, he likes to watch a lot of it. We also watch Jeopardy together and some other game shows.
He is a talented and smart person. He has won 3 Emmys, not individually, but with his workmates, the reporters and writers. I had one of the videos he worked on that won an Emmy. Probably still have that saved on my computer somewhere. It's about a Belgian teen that takes care of the grave of an American soldier from Arkansas that was killed in World War 2. Very patriotic stuff. My son put the whole piece together and did the graphics for it.

I imagine that we will continue to chat back and forth here. I am sure everyone certainly knows only too well that I am chatty. Don't know what we will talk about, but it probably doesn't matter much. It will be good to just hear how everyone is coping.

Sorry to hear about your friend that died at such a young age. That must have been traumatic and it sounds like you've been through a lot of other trauma. The death of my wife a couple of years ago was traumatic for me. I am a bit of a homebody, but she was a goer and liked nothing better than a trip to New York or Los Angeles or Chicago. If she were still here I have no doubt that she would be dragging me on a plane bound for somewhere, but I am exaggerating a bit. We had some good times together and I'm glad to have gone with her.