RAINBOW

Life has been full of storms.

Physical storms.

A rare combination of freezing temperatures, snow, and sleet.

Emotional storms.

Carefully laid- out plans upended by an aging mother’s broken collarbone.

Requiring shoulder replacement surgery.  Disrupting plans for Spring Break this year.

Mental storms.

Stressed out by the pressures of life with three young daughters.

Husband absent. His job requiring he work overtime.

I feel alone, helpless.

After the storms, a rainbow and realizing there's hope for the future.

SHAMROCK

I refuse to surrender.

I will remain true to myself.

There, I find the strength to endure oppression.

No matter how hard you try to squeeze me,

No matter how long you try to convince me,

You can’t.

I refuse give in,

To believe your taunts, your lies.

My character is my armor.

It protects me,

Allows me to overcome.

Not just to overcome,

But to thrive.

No, I don’t believe in finding hope,

I will make my own hope.

Mixed Bouquet

Zoo or Safari

Careful decision.

Gourmet meal catered or Gourmet meal with ingredients delivered and you cook yourself?

No, I abhor celebrity notoriety. I like my privacy, to be an egnima.

WYE want to a colonist on another planet, knowing you could never return to Earth.

Paper. Got to have a real book in my hands.

Wine in a bottle or paper carton?

Probably not. I hate salespersons (and their cousins, advertisements). I hate being strong armed and coerced.

WYE Be a member of an 'Intergenerational Starship' to another star.

No, if I had other choices. But if the choice was insects, grubs, or whatever, or starve to death, yes. Starvation is a powerful motivator.

WYE start your life over if you had the opportunity to avoid past mistakes or regrets?

Intimate setting. Hate huge crowds.

Buy a best seller when releases or wait to barrow it the library (even though there is long waiting list for the title)?

YES! Cunard, especially offers those kind of cruises. Actually, quite cheap considering everything is included, including meals.

Would you ever hike the Appalachian Trail, either continuously from beginning to end at one time or in segments over time?

Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow; six more weeks of winter!

Yes. Knew a couple who did just that. Sold their house and most everything else, bought a 44ft ketch and sail around the Caribbean and NE coast of South America.

WYE Buy a motorhome and just travel the country?

Love grows stronger when we mutually surrender to each other. ❤️

No. You can tell politicians who are true to themselves. They don't get elected.

WYE abandon the world and live as a hermit?

Dip, perhaps. Actually swim? Doubt I could!

WYE Run either the bulls in Spain?

Shower. You're not bathing in your own filth. LoL

Vacation at full-service spa?

Depends. Alone, know. With family, yes. Family is everything.

Sell everything and live on a sailboat, cruising from Port to Port as your spirit leads you,

Visit yes, but I'm not a person who likes new foods. Some foods are real turnoff for me. My failing.

WYE take a survival challenge? Nothing except a pocket-knife, not even clothes? Live off the land for say 2 weeks?

Right now, large dog. They can keep up with my 8-mile running regimen.

Run or cycle for fitness?

Entertaining B movie. Been watching a lot of older (pre-1940) movies. Simpler times, simpler plot, but still entertaining. Over Christmas watched a 1933 U.S. Christmas Carol and a 1935 U.K. movie of the same name.

Pets- dogs or cats?

No. Not now. Would miss my three daughters and my husband too much. Pre-wife/mom, yeah. As a family, yeah. But now, no.

WYE Take a year-long, around-the-world cruise?

I'm better with real life stories, non-fiction, than fiction. Avoided fiction in college.

Deep-sea fishing or river/lake fishing?

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WYE go to a meet and greet with Mendalla when he throws one of his amazing summer parties?

Absolutely even though I'm more of Winter girl than a Summer girl.

WYE enroll in a particular college or university just to pledge to a particular sorority or fraternity?

Either, but plain - unbuttered, unsalted - is a great snack if you're watching your weight.

Reading a book - one chapter per sitting or race through to get to the end?

Yes, we've done that. Wonderful experience.

Would ever dive in cage to see sharks underwater?

Of course, everyone is created in God's image and deserves love and respect.

Would you ever: Smoke at cigar in public?

We have three beautiful daughters aged five and twins, three.

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Tastes change as we age.

Breakfast first. We have taught our daughters that frenzied, undisciplined behavior is unacceptable in the house. It's hard with a five-year-old and twin three-year-olds, but we try to slow them down and teach them to enjoy the journey and not hurry to the destination. Believe it is a good way to approach all things in life.

Fresh-baked or store-bought pies for Christmas?