I'd just waved goodbye to my ever-loving husband, Ted, and sat down at the kitchen table. You see , after fifty-five years with unpredictable spaces between my little gray cells, I'm an expert. I have a coping trick for every occasion. I want to finish. Out the kitchen window a robin pulled a worm from the green lawn, which was great for the robin, but not so hot for the worm.
Life is like that.
I'm Cousin Clothilde's daughter Anne, from Winston-Salem. I did a puppet show when you came to visit, back when I was a kid. I'm Mrs. Sam Newman now. I needed to remember her new name. I visualized that.