Semo alumni are everywhere!

I was watching the national news yesterday and all of a sudden I see and hear a blast from the past, Mike Braun, talking about the capture of El Chapo!  Mike is Semo alum who served as director of operations for DEA!  I texted him to say I was watching and he texted right back asking how I was doing!

Semo alumni are everywhere!

Kristi Stacy and kids

Kristi Stacy came to see Mark and Tina yesterday with her kids, Ashley And Brian, and they went to Duke Chapel!

Mothers Day 2016

The "grandsons" who are graduating next week brought me flowers yesterday and we went to Andys!  Watch out world:  these guys from Kenya, Sri Lanka and Paris will change their world!  They have changed mine with their love!

The gift of words

I just got off the phone with my younger son, James, and I am still in a state of shock.  He is a riot because he says things out loud that other people think.  I used to try to muffle him; now I let him spew and erupt!  We laugh together!  Today, he blew what's left of my mind when he said, "Mom, there's not a day that I don't think about you"!  I took it as a positive!  Oh how I love that kid and his mouth!

Inauguration over!

I enjoyed seeing people and I was surrounded, at all times, by people who care about me!  I did not go to reception! Came home, changed clothes and went downtown to listen to music at Mike night to people who thought they could sing and did it off key and loud!

Cinco de Mayo

Stay tuned!  We are inaugurating a President at Semo Today!  He is special to me!  I called it from the start!

Mark Stacy's birthday!

He was born May 4, 1959!  Go figure!

Tuesday and Gloria is here to clean!

Gloria has been here on Tuesdays for too many years to count!  She is getting old too but who is counting!  I hired al graduate yesterday to come on Fridays!  She is going for her Masters and she needs the money!  She comes highly recommended by Susan Burton!  Good enough for me!   

She is a certified athletic trainer!

Hiring Monday

I have run out of help and drivers so I am hiring today a new crew!  Karel has her own business in summer, Matt is leaving next month for seminary, Mark has cancer of the colon and he will be going thru an operation so I am hiring!  Tina Bickings is losing her job at Chartwells for the summer so she is available after mY fr14!  I need two people to help with computer, drive, do errands and allow me to do what I want to do!

The new girl, Elizabeth, comes with high marks from Susan burton!  That is enough for me!

An Indian gentleman

Yesterday afternoon I had the pleasure of meeting Mukul Varshney--father of Mannat, a Semo student!  He is head of the John Deere plant in India and I first heard of him from Charlie Stamp, a Semo alumnus and long-time friend!

The Varshneys came to my house and we had a wonderful evening! It was a delight!