Random Early May Musings

In January, 2021, I wrote a blog post about how I can’t cut a straight piece of cantaloupe and how several years earlier, my then young grandson chided me for eating my cantaloupe with a knife, saying his mother said he should never put a knife in his mouth. In 2025, I still eat a piece of cantaloupe every morning and I still eat it with a knife, although I do think of my grandson’s warning.
While waiting for an elevator the other day I bumped into Roger who ran the mailroom when I worked at the Kennedy School at Harvard. We greeted each other warmly. He is still in charge of the mailroom almost thirteen years later, and he looks the same. I, however, do not.
On Saturday night, I met my next door neighbor, a graduate student, at the elevator. We rode down together. I was meeting friends for dinner. Not sure where she was going but she was jacket-less and wearing a white camisole-type cotton top and jeans. I was wearing a long-sleeved shirt and a lightly padded jacket. “Oh, to be young again!
With trepidation, I just checked the mouse trap in my closet. The cheese was still there so I think the exterminator did his job well.
This month marks 25 years since I have eaten gluten. ☹
It is only 43 days until my son Seth’s wedding!

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