I Am So Happy, A Good Gift

I had every test there is. Liver, blood, urine, lungs, heart, cholesterol, kidneys and etc. I got great results.

So this is like winning an award for writing, for acting, for dancing, for baking a cake in a cake contest, for writing a book on growing old and being a senior.

A friend adopted a baby and she made a comment on television when asked how she felt being a Mom. She said it was like he has a hand on my heart. What a touching thing that touched my heart too.

When we had two doggies, one at a time, one loved to listen to opera songs and she sat with my husband because he loved opera and she sat on the family room sofa (cannot believe I let her do that).

We have a prince of a geriatric physician. He listens, he advises and he is kind in person or if you call him up.

His name is Dr. Ulrich Prinz and I kid him, his name should be king. When I worked 60 years ago, we had a fellow name Irvin and he nicknamed himself King and when y0u talked to him over the speaker, you called him for something I needed from him from the plant you called out King come to the office. It was interesting he thought of himself being that name. He was nice and kind.

I won an award about 5 years ago from the Sunpapers Mobbie awards for people who wrote columns on everything. I did not know that I was nominated and came in 36th out of 500 submissions. I came across it when I typed in my name just to see what was happening and there it popped up. So I called the Sunpapers and I got connected to the editor in charge and he said he had emailed me I had won and could come to a party where all the winners were given a small luncheon or dinner and they won a certificate and so he mailed me one and I framed it.

All of these small things make up life and they touch our heart.

Elita Sohmer Clayman Fairfax Station, Va Patch