Feb. 4, 2016

Dear Hildie:

How I dread reading the newspaper! One more obit I recognized. Hadn’t heard anything about this fellow for 60 years! A couple of years older than I was and a BAD dude—roamed the old neighborhood on his Schwinn Tiger with a pair of saddlebags each containing a BB pistol! Actually, he wasn’t that bad—Never did anything to me. I wonder what he made of his life? Obituary only gave his name, death date, age and arrangements.

Something is driving the children crazy. Pierre has been demanding entry into the space under the heating unit but when I let him in he doesn’t find anything. Then he races back and forth and into the backyard barking in his high pitched way while Squirrel punctuates it with a bass WOOF.  MM says she hears something big (coon sized) in the attic. Want to come relocate somebody to your yard?

My classmate who arranges all the reunions asked didn’t I want to come to this one—I would be the “star”. What hyperbole. As Groucho once said, somebody ought to vaccinate her with a polygraph needle! I told her reunions weren’t my thing.

Take care. Keep warm.

Love,

M

Feb. 3, 2016

Dear Hildie:

Now maybe some cool weather for a change.  I’m trying to get five pages a day written. I realize that if I do much more than that I run out of ideas—One of the best pieces of advice I ever read on writing was to always leave a scene unfinished when you quit because it means the next day you don’t have to sit there thinking what to say. The other best piece of advice was not to start at the beginning but AFTER the beginning, and use flashbacks to incorporate the beginning into the text.

Have to go now. Client wants something in a hurry.

Take care.

Love,

M

Feb. 2, 2016

Dear Hildie

Everyone here denies knowing how the stapler got into the freezer. I have some very interesting workers! No, there were no new nose rings or piercings—that I could see.

Well, the Iowa Caucuses are over—Thank God! Now New Hampshire, etc. One of the people on the Sunday news said the attention given to all this amounted to media malpractice. I agree. In my opinion, Christie is finished, as is Bush—though things can happen to change all that. I also think Rubio is likely, at this point, to be the Republican nominee because nobody in the leadership likes Cruz. Rubio has the photogenic ability and articulateness to give them the best chance of beating Hillary.  I don’t know what Fiorina was doing in the thing to begin with–maybe looking for a job.

On with the show!

Take care.

Love,

M

Feb 1, 2016

Dear Hildie:

It was good visiting with you. And thanks for the nuts. And, again, for the beautiful vase.

The crew is in the field. I am waiting for a 10:30 conference call on a project.

There was a lot I wanted to say but I forgot, of course.

Take care.

Love,

M