her search for her reading glasses (they were around her neck on a
cord, as it turned out). Although I didn't want to be snoopy, I did
manage to see the first several items before I heard her coming down
the hallway had to quickly close the drawer. (Note: When I
checked back the next day while "looking for a pen," the list was
gone, dammit).
Anyway, this is what I remember from that fleeting glance (note:
they may be a bit out of order)...
- Grow up in a Mexican family in 1960s racist, blue-collar Taylor, MI ✔
- Attend the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City (after driving all the way there
from Michigan). Then drive all the way back. (With my parents.) ✔
- Somehow overcome a suspect education at Taylor High; earn a
grant to study at U of M ✔
- Enroll in art school at U of M; become a doctor ✔
- Marry into an elite family from racist, white-collar West Dearborn, MI ✔
- Research husband's family's confederate, slave-owning Southern roots ✔
- Have two children: one a lawyer in Chicago, the other a designer in
NYC/Paris ✔
- Accidentally lock myself into a public restroom in Ecuador ✔
- Go to law school myself, what the hell ✔
- Meet Monchy and Alexandra, the Dominican Bachata singers ✔
- Survive a collision with a deer just two blocks from the house (be driving
husband's car at the time, so no biggie) ✔
- Make a 100-year-old woman my BFF ✔
- Buy tons of American Girl Doll stuff for my daughters (but not until they're
in their 20s) ✔
- Take my sweet, elderly Mexican immigrant half-sister Angie -- who has rarely
left Taylor except for random trips back to Mexico since she arrived in the U.S.
in 1951 -- on the vacation of a lifetime to Paris
- Completely forget that I have them on and wear my new Halfinger
indoor/outdoor slippers to work ✔
- Take an accordion lesson from the legendary Riobard O'Dwyer in
Eyeries Village, County Cork, Ireland ✔
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| Linda and Riobard, Eyeries Village, County Cork All the Best on Your Big Day, Linda! |
There was more on that list!?!? Happy Birthday Linda...
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