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About This Author
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| I have become an expert on getting old and when I am not having any senior moments, I have decided to make a list of why! 1. Mind works, body not so well. 2. The hot 20-year-olds used to be me. I used to have an 18 inch waist. 3. When I arrive in the bedroom, from some other room in the house I have forgotten why I came to the bedroom. 4. Then, I remember what I was doing and needed to end up in the kitchen, not the bedroom. 5. My cell phone which goes off roughly once a week....in a good week. Scares the hell out me. 6. I can't find my cell phone most of the time. 7. I make it a habit never to look in a mirror because when I do, I am scared to death. Who is that old person in my house and why are they here? 8. When I sit down to weed the garden, it takes all four appendages to get me back up. 9. I now know why the wooden cut-out of the old fat lady bending over in the yard is funny. 10. I can't recognize people I knew well only 15 years ago. 11. I can think for three days trying to remember a vocabulary word that used to roll off the tongue so easily. 12. People--a long, long, long time ago--used to think I looked to old to be my son's mother. 13. I ruined my body for my sons and they forget they have a mother....except when they suggest I need to come see them. Forget, that apparently the road only runs in one direction. 14. My high school students no longer call me Momma Estes but Granny Estes. 15. I forgot the rest right now, but will add them every three days when I remember another. |
