Johnny, my husband, died two days ago. Twelve years ago he was diagnosed with lykemia. (I’m sorry I can’t figure out the spelling today. Ha, and you should see all the wrong keys I’m hitting too.) “I Look Great With Your Glasses Off,” I said to him awhile ago. We like to look at thoughts from the other side. We had fun with his disease too. And now I’m fighting off breast cancer. We’d laugh after my treatments when we both tripped through the house having been too sick to eat. Doing dished gives me a short break from the pain. Our Father in heaven gave John strength to get me to my two surgeries (they were minor) then I’d get an extra boost when he was especially bad.  And my goodness I wish you could all meet the good people at the VA hospital. Especially the African Americans. They tuned right in- and staff, patients, clergy, nurses and my favorite a custodian, all helped me, cried, and all the African American brothers and sisters prayed with me.  John was !00% German American, I’m Scotch- Irish American and both both of those cultures are restrained and overly quiet. Yea sometimes that’s good but I learn things I wouldn’t otherwise learn from my African and Liberian American friends. I love America. I love Americans!  nancymauerman.com

I Look Great With Your Glasses Off

One of my great pleasures in life is make my husband laugh. I said, “Generally when I look at myself I don’t like what I see. But for the last four days when I look in the mirror I looked good! Then I realized that for the last four days my glasses were dirty!”  nancymauerman.com

Faces – Portrait In Black And White

John’s the monster of cotton rounds. Weeks ago he bought fifteen packages of the flat cotton pads and put them away every place he looks when he can’t find them. They were put away scattered all over the house.

This week he couldn’t remember where those fifteen places were so he went to the store to buy more. He brought home sixteen packages and squirreled away the fifteen extra ones in places he’d just searched. But then he had a monstrous idea for next time. He went back to the store and brought home fifteen more. He put these in places he’d never think to look.

You would think he’d feel secure but no. He’s applied the fifteen plus fifteen brilliance to too many other things to be assured a cotton round when the currant package is empty.  nancymauerman.com

Monster 1

John found a very quick way to shop. He left with a long list segregated into four different stops.  He left at eleven and returned at eleven twenty!

“Are you done? How can you have finished so soon?”  I asked.

“Well my secret is this; as soon as all my groceries were in their bags I found out I’d left my wallet at home.”

Yellow And Black Abstract 2

We turned the television on to find the last half of a movie.  We were recording it and I asked, “Have you seen this before?”

“Nope, I don’t think so,” John said.  Then he tried to say he didn’t want to start the program in the middle.  We could see the movie revolved around a tight plot so John said, “I don’t want to see it before I see it, in case I haven’t seen it.” nancymauerman.com

Up can be down

if you’re going the wrong way.

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The Pipe

I must have surrendered

My last sentence was;

“Will not allow PC to TV via HDMI

in real time.”

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John

Who hasn’t had

an iota of decorum

yet likes tight knit groups

of words huddled together

like; the beginning of the end

which is more than  the middle

or vice versa

when words just get deeper,

go figure.   nancymauerman.com

Ann

Elisabeth says,” I was raising an alligator for my homework. But my homework ate my dog!”  nancymauerman.com

Elisabeth