I have not had time to write. I have been reading and commenting as much as possible, but not writing. Busy, busy. Thankfully, Fusun especially, has not given up on me!

It is late. I just sat down and learned about the Open Call for 12 Random Facts You Don’t Know About Me.  How can I not participate! I must try!

#1          The first time my sister and I traveled on an airplane without our parents, I was age five and my sister was three and a half. To the airline, we were 8 and 6. We had a plan, snacks, coloring books – and I remember feeling a bit annoyed by what I felt were overprotective flight attendants who kept asking us if we were okay.

#2           My mother never saved any of the letters I wrote to Santa Claus because I insisted on accompanying her to the post box so I knew for certain my letter was sent.

#3          After watching kid after kid go off a the high dive at a college swimming pool, I got out of the water, quickly walked to the ladder, climbed up, walked on the diving board and dove into the water. It was beautiful. I thought I should do it again while I was still feeling brave, but I did not execute the second dive with as much grace. I hit the water flat on my back. A lifeguard asked if I needed help. I couldn’t respond because the air had been knocked out of me. I was doing my best to relax and float. I guess the lifeguard did not want to get her swimsuit wet.

#4          When watching the movie Jaws in 1975, I jumped so high when Ben Gardner’s dead head appeared in the destroyed hull of the Orca, I landed on the arm off my theater seat.

#5          An ill-fated visit to a hair salon for a permanent resulted in my head looking conspicuously square for a week.

#6          For my first sewing project in home economics class, I chose to make a formal gown. What was I THINKING?

And so we come to the end of part one.