Thanks, Laurie, for the card! You always put thought in everything! Never just throw something in the mail! You are very special! The card makes you think!
Saturday, October 31, 2015
Saturday and lots to do!
Friday, October 30, 2015
Thursday, October 29, 2015
My face is still hurting!
Yes my face is still hurting from laughter! I hosted birthday party for Nancy Bray yesterday at Katy's downtown and we spent nearly three hours laughing! Bierk was there so war was declared early! He is now on soapbox to boo me when I am inducted into Semo Athletic Hall of Fame because I cannot even throw a ball! I just bring it up and rub it in every time we are together to rub it in worse! I love to use my sadistic streak on him!
Wednesday, October 28, 2015
Keeping busy with friends
Tuesday, October 27, 2015
Bray Birthday
I went out to Chateau for Alton Brays birthday and had a fine time! Alton was thrilled and I ran into John Burciaga who was in college with me and who knew Alton also! We had a merry old time and then I went back to Baptist Student Center and we worked until six last night! I can't say I am not needed! I can't say I am not tired this morning!
Monday, October 26, 2015
A Bangladesh Evening
It was a Bangladesh night filled with food and culture and the women who cooked nailed it! The potato latkes were spiced with coriander and were wonderful! Matt Porter slipped into chapel and asked me if I had any eggs in my refrigerator and could he go get them! He knows the code and he went! And the big news was that Aron and Angelia's father is new Sri Lankan advisor to UN!
Sunday, October 25, 2015
Sikeston Hospital Benefit
Saturday, October 24, 2015
The circle makers
I'm reading a book by Mark Batterson and I was taken by one line: "in the words of Harriet Doerr 'One of the best things about aging is being able to watch imagination overtake memory"! She wrote her first book when she was 74 and it won the National Book Award! I try diligently to keep striving! I like to visit the past but I do not want to take up residence there!
Friday, October 23, 2015
I finally feel better
I got out among them today and used my brain for something useful! People came by! Carol Robinson brought me caramels that were homemade! I worked on Fb so that Alton Bray will hear from old friends on his 96th birthday! I have to feel that i am doing something for someone!
Thursday, October 22, 2015
24 hour bug
It hit me yesterday and I spent more time in bathroom than on Fb! Hoping today will be better! No other news!
Tuesday, October 20, 2015
Monday, October 19, 2015
Monday morning getting up!
My back is better and I am grateful! I need to rest quitely for a few more days! My spirits are low; I will pull myself up but apparently the floodgate of memories has been opened!
Sunday, October 18, 2015
Saturday, October 17, 2015
Homecoming, 2015
Hallelujah it is over! I think God is telling me that I should stay away from now on and do something which does not leave me feeling so down-hearted. All my moments of joy came from alumni rushing up to hug me. They introduced every politician around and no one at any event bothered to introduce me or give me an ounce of credit for a lifetime of work! Bill Stacy and wife showed up and they were quick to introduce him! Then I slipped at stadium and had to have Dr Robinson and Carol bring me home! One woman thought I had died since I hadn't been introduced at the dinner!
I am really down in the dumps! I want to throw in the towel! The whole weekend lies sadly in my brain and every muscle in my back hurts! At least I can take something and forget the ugly parts, or, at least, get some sleep!
Friday, October 16, 2015
Dinner at home
Dr Audrey Reynolds from Chicago is staying with me! We had dinner at my house last night with the Hartes and John Bierk! John had heard that I was inducted into Semo Athletic Hall of Fame and he said he would lead the booing system that night! Tom brought cheesecake! Yum!
Thursday, October 15, 2015
Wednesday, October 14, 2015
Betty Hearnes Scholarship winner wins Semo Talent Show
I love working with my eight scholarship recipients! They take me into their life and I do the same! And they want me there when they perform and I go!
Last night I went up to a long talent show at the Show me Center and Hannah Sherer won it! She is the first recipient of the Betty Cooper Hearnes Music Scholarship and she is singing the National Anthem at the football game on Saturday! I'm proud of her!
Tuesday, October 13, 2015
Reconciliation
One of the highlights of my brunch yesterday was when Lana Flynn- Richmond came back and visited with the President and told him that I kept reminding her that this was her school and her legacy and no one can ever take that away from her! The university belongs to all of us who wish to claim it and a pox on those who try to declare their supreme ownership!
Lana, I am so proud of you and all the others who have stood their rightful ground!
Monday, October 12, 2015
Sunday, October 11, 2015
Annie's wedding
Saturday, October 10, 2015
Debbie Bickings
Yesterday I went to shop to have a weave done and my eyebrows done! Then we went to Marios to eat! There is nothing I could ask her to do that she wouldn't try to do! She is my daughter in residence! I'm lucky!
Friday, October 9, 2015
Running around living!
Yesterday I had a meeting where I had to decide if I was going to share information that had grave implications or if I was going to go blissfully on my way! I chose the former! And I am glad! Age does not relieve you of responsibility!
So I spent the afternoon getting my nails done--bright red for Homecoming--and buying new red and black clothes for Homecoming and buying football tickets! Then going to Pilot House with Joan Gohn and Genie Kremer and then going to Central High for their concert! I live every day and I am happy for it!
Thursday, October 8, 2015
I need coffee to think things through!
Meeting at house today that is important! What should I say and what should I hold back? These decisions affect lives! I have to be right on target or lose credibility! When does confidentiality become second to greater good? It may be today! I have a lot of thinking to do before 10:00!
Wednesday, October 7, 2015
Miss Mary
I went to PEO Brunch with Mary Ellen Sharp yesterday and Mary Kasten was there. She was long-time neighbor and friend and sorta nuts! She walked to the tune of a different drummer! My son, Jim, could do a mean impersonation of her!
Tuesday, October 6, 2015
Get ready for fall!
I spent yesterday getting ready for fall! Karel came and decorated the house and yard and then took me to the eye doctor, Dr Wood! He took pics of the back of my eyeball, pronounced that I was fine and said that I was fine and he would see me in a year!
It made me think of all the cycles of living that we do. Some are seasonal and some are annual, we just do it because it is time!
Monday, October 5, 2015
Indian night - a huge success!
Over 150 came last night to A b Cooper ministries for Indian Night! The students stayed up all night cooking the food! I took two bites; they must have steel stomachs! But it was a mob of students
Sunday, October 4, 2015
Happy birthday Leigh Hearnes Hammond!
Love this picture and display it in my living room all the time! You were and are such a shy cutie! Happy birthday, Screwhead!
Saturday, October 3, 2015
Chinese festival
Last night Carol Robinson and I went to the Chinese Festival and Lo and behold Lu Yan was there! She was my scholarship recipient and then she graduated and moved to Houston! That girl is something else! How I wish she would move back here! 
Friday, October 2, 2015
Til, a true neighbor!
I read in the paper this week of the death of Frances Sue Moran from Charleston and it caused me to reflect on Mama's porch swing upon which many problems have been discussed, if not solved! Chief among sitters was Til Moran, Frances Sue's mother, who lived across the street and was a daily visitor! The two of them adopted each other mentally and they sat in the swing and watched their world and the cars and years go by.
I love the memories of that old porch swing!
Thursday, October 1, 2015
Still remembering
