Fresh

Once in a while life steps up and says, "Whoops, it's time to change things up."

I think I am in control, but that's never really true.

I read about people who lived their whole lives with two dresses, one pair of earrings, the same house, an attic full of hand me down furniture and I wonder how they did it.

I would look like an ad for Ragbag Sally.

About every five years I lose one of my favorite earrings and about seventy pounds of fat. In 2010 I lost everything I owned that didn't fit in my Honda Accord. I have moved to a new favorite place four times in the last seven years and bought my Haviland china at Goodwill.

The only thing that stays the same are my children and best friends. I even lost my husband after thirty years.

And it's not a bad way to live!

It keeps everything pertinent and fresh.