I'll Call It Like I See It

by sheila morris

Tag: champagne

  • easter birthdays, shanghai, champagne and family


    My birthday this year is on Easter Sunday, April the 21st. I was born on an Easter Sunday in 1946 and my birthday has been on Easter Sunday one other time in 1957 when I was eleven years old. Get this, the next time April 21 is on an Easter Sunday is 2030. Eleven years from now, right? I find that weird, but apparently some kind of sun cycles occur at 11-year intervals every 62 years. Whatever. The End.

    Earlier this week three special friends came over to play Shanghai to kick off my birthday week, and a fun time of laughter and  luck made the time pass too quickly. Congratulations to our winner War Eagle Nan who consistently has good luck, Donna and Robin’s luck was so-so and they were able to pay Nan on the spot, but Pretty had bad luck. Poor Pretty had to venmo her losses to Nan. I was a close second to Nan who graciously forgave my 99 cents since I was the birthday girl after all.

    My gifts included two bottles of champagne which are now down to one – we popped the cork and three of us drank one bottle that afternoon. I cannot lie. I was one of the three. I also received a delicious butter pound cake with the two sauces pictured above. Unfortunately, the pound cake was not available for the picture. Again, I cannot lie. Pretty has not had one bite of the pound cake.

    Last, but not least, I also was given this lovely bogonia which has the most beautiful blossom colors – I love them. They remind me of the hope that springs eternal in this season.

    This Easter and 73rd. birthday I will be with Pretty and other family members in the home that will soon have new sights and sounds with the arrival of a baby daughter in October. Our family will have much to celebrate as we eat the delicious food while we talk books, politics, sports and our new favorite topic: babies.

    The hope of the resurrection of Jesus in the New Testament is, I believe, the experience of redemption we all are offered every day when we forgive each other our trespasses, speak truth to power and practice kindness as our highest calling.

    Stay tuned.

     

     

     

     

  • Click And Clink – Happy New Year!!


    Open a bottle of your favorite champagne and get out your most festive flutes and share a toast with me today wherever you are.   To my cyber space followers/friends from the beaches of South Carolina to the rural parts of Way East Texas to my bi-stateual bases in Columbia, South Carolina and Montgomery, Texas to faraway places like San Francisco, California to Rogers, Arkansas to Warsaw, Indiana to Karachi, Pakistan to somewhere in France because your primary language is French but you didn’t list a town so I don’t really know where you are –  to not too terribly faraway places like College Station, San Leon and Richmond, Texas – here’s looking at all of you and thanks for looking at my words with me for the past year.   I’m clinking you right now with my own personal glass of champagne.

    I took a trip down memory lane this morning and decided to make an Author’s Choice of my favorite posts from the past twelve months we’ve been together.   If you’d like to pick your own, I’d love to hear from you to get a reader’s perspective.   Click and Pick, we’ll call it.  Click on Archives and Pick a favorite.  Surprise me…here goes my list:

    March 09, 2012  Post Cards From The Heart – Bessie and Florence?

    Febuary 14. 2012  The Photo Finish

    January 17, 2012   I Shoulda Been A Cowboy

    January 24, 2012   Old Plantersville Road

    August 25, 2011   It’s Only Paper – Confessions Of A Financial Advisor

    September 26, 2011   Sallie and Chance – An Unusual Love Story

    December 16, 2011   Gold, Frankincense and Myrrh – A Christmas Story for the 21st Century

    When I checked out at the local grocery store this morning, the young African American woman who was the checker said with a trace of sarcasm, “Hmmm….bread, bacon and bubbly…now that’s a nice combination for you.”  And I laughed with her as I imagined her picturing me frying the bacon for a BLT and then popping the cork on the beautiful inexpensive bottle of champagne to go with my sandwich.  I’m sure  she was entertained for a few minutes.

    So Happy New Year!  We’re off to a roaring start because my book I’ll Call It Like I See It – A Lesbian Speaks Out will be available October 1st!!!   Details will be posted as we get closer to the publication date…

    Thank you so much to all of you who have followed my happenings, musings, reflections and downright opinionating.   I’m clinking you again.