A Smattering of Thought

It is hard to believe that 20 years have passed since I escaped graduated high school.  Many study halls & algebra classes were spent daydreaming about what my life would look like as “an adult”.  A beautiful house with a white picket fence, a handful of impeccably dressed and well-behaved children frolicking on the lush green grass while my hot handsome husband brings  me a glass of lemonade while I blissfully lounge on the hammock during a warm spring day {ignoring the mound of laundry and dinner burning in the oven}.   Ahh…this is the life! Okay, so maybe not reality, but it was a daydream!  Most teen girls envision themselves married with a family, or at least I did.  I certainly did not picture my life single and living on my own.  Each of these pictures can be electrifyingly freeing or devastatingly hindering.  Neither one is picture perfect.  Neither one is better than the other one.  As I look at my prese...

... All alone in the moonlight, la la la la-la la la... The last few weeks I have had a lot of time to just "veg" at home.  For me, that is unusual and rare. I did things I normally don't do, look through old letters, notes and yearbooks.   Not really sure why, but thought it would be fun!  Oh it was fun!!  We really did have BIG hair back then and some very strange clothing!!  As I read through the written comments, re-lived some of the photos and remembered what high school was, it seemed surreal.   I remember thinking Boyz 2 Men was the greatest singing group ever. High hair (and stiff) was a must. Peg-rolling your jeans was not an option. A Cassette  Walkman meant you were cool and then came CDs! Blue eye shadow was not for the timid. Study hall was NOT for studying. Everyone wrote "stay sweet" in everyone's yearbook. The seniors ahead of me always seemed older than when I became a senior. Looking back at who ...