March Memories
- · St Patrick’s Day: the most wonderful holiday of the year.
- · 1975- New Orleans Madri Gras
- Rita's Water Ice store opens up again and I have six months of refreshing water ice. On the first day of spring, the water ice is free.
- March 15, the heater is shut off. I don't care how cold it is, I don't use my header after March 15. Four+ months of heating bills is enough for one damn winter.
- · March 24, 1986- Ida, my grandmother died. She had a stroke the week prior. By the time my mother and uncle got to Florida to intervene, she was alert and fussing about how ridiculous it was hat they came all this way to see her. “I’m fine, go home to your families,” she told them. But they stayed for a few days to make sure her treatment was as it should be. They had a great time and on the day they were to leave, she had another massive stroke and died. She died the way she deserved to die: quickly, painlessly and surrounded by her family.
- · 1987- I defended my damn dissertation at Penn State University.
2017- A trip to Alaska to watch the Iditirod.
- · 2008- A few weeks in South Korea to visit with my niece, Heather.
- · March 5, 2005: Sharon called me at 6:00 AM. “Dad’s been rushed to the hospital, he’s passed out”, she tells me ever so sadly. “Stay by your phone, it doesn’t look good. I’ll call you again when I have more information.” She hung up and I resigned myself to the thought that he died. An hour later, she calls to confirm my suspicions. “We are all at the hospital. Dad is still here with us . We can wait until you get here before we move him. Do you want to come over right now?” I tell her “no” and hang up the phone. I let out a sigh of relief that he died quickly, before the cancer had a chance to eat him up.
- March 24, 1928- My dad's birthday
March 2008- a new car: 2003 Honda Element. It had 47,000 miles on it which I thought was a lot of miles. But the dealer told me I could get 250,000 miles on this vehicle. I paid $15,000.
March 2017- a new car: 2014 Honda Civic. It only had 12,000 miles on it and I paid $15,000. And my 2003 Honda Element with 244,000 miles was traded in for $1200.
- March 26, 2017- I met Jimmy Carter
- My garden begins to emerge from the ground, renewing my rebirth after a cold winter.
- My garden starts to bloom. The daffodils come first.
