dona's 365

My phone : Moo Me : That must be Carol Diane (my husband’s sister) : What’s your ring tone for me? Me : Ode to Joy My phone: Ding Dong the Witch is Dead * Diane : Who’s that Me ( looking at screen ): Your mom Diane : *my default ring tone – I told her the next day.

My (twin) brothers-in-law, Danny and Dennis have been farming just outside Elgin, Illinois all their adult life. Before that their father farmed some of the same land . In less than two years most of the land they farm will become a subdivision for the rich. Their landlords are selling out.

Gregarious, pretty and smart, Debbie was all that I aspired to be. She never acknowledged me however; too busy being herself to notice the shyer students. I quietly mourned her death in a car accident after junior college, then married her brother a few years later. Coincidence? Probably mostly serendipity.