01/09/2025
Hello all you dull women. I have found my clan here. Life is boring so today I decided to make my own laundry soap. I’m 86, but sometimes I think I am 56, however that changes as the day goes on. I used to be 5 ft 6”, however I shrank and my feet got bigger. I live with my dog-pound pup. She is as old as I am, can’t hear and her teeth are questionable. We are a lot alike. In my past I had a couple of marriages, 4 or 6 kids, depending on how you look at it. I have oodles of grandchildren, who are all smart and exceptional - and fortunately don’t live with me. They all think I am boring, I could tell them about living in Denmark, Norway and Germany and tell them about WW II, and sometimes they actually do listen. In my past I have been a maid, a seamstress, a secretary, a realtor and a registered nurse. It’s funny how you learn something from even boring jobs. Now I have a love affair with my sewing machine, and I make quilts, sometimes I teach quilting techniques, and in between I read, (mostly historical fiction) I love to travel, recently to not so boring Malta, I garden and bake sourdough breads. My dull and boring friends are in the quilt guilds, the book club and whoever wants to join me in walking trips along the Mississippi beach. I am not musically inclined, can’t carry a tune, but I still have old style music on all day long. Right now it’s “Lark Ascending”, maybe later it will be Gershwin or Herb Albert or something equally dull.
Love you all. Stay dull, please. (It’s actually fun).
Credit: Anne Hindmarch