Well, actually, I have a different topic to talk about today. I have been retired for a little over two and a half years and finally feeling less anxious, more calm, restful. My mother recently invited herself out here to visit for Thanksgiving and what should have been a joyous occasion, seemed marred even before she arrived. My life with my mother has had it's ups and downs over the years. Over the past ten years I felt we had finally established a good relationship, but for whatever demons haunt her, it seemed to crumble a few months ago. I made the fatal error of posting a photo of my mother and father, (separated 1964, divorced 1967) taken in the 1950's, for father's day on my Facebook. She saw it on her friend's page, she doesn't have a computer, called me and really laid into me (her friend had friended me a week earlier).
