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I recently took a trip to the east coast…I know some of you are saying..”That’s a trip?” Well, if you follow my blogs you would know that I am born and raised in Southern California, so “Yes! That’s a trip!” Beside the fact that I was, and still am, amazed how the roads are SO different than the freeways of Los Angeles, and the fact that people actually live in houses without fences – I’m still wondering how dogs know where to stop. Or better yet, how do kids know which yard to play in? (But that could be a topic for a totally different blog.) There are many differences between life in LA and life in the wooded area of Maryland or New York. But the reason for this rant today is something that has actually been gnawing at me since I left.

I went back east to see my eldest nephew graduate from West Point – see blog from May 23 – but then I went to Maryland to stay with an old college friend. She said something to me that I cannot get out of my head. She told me that she would be okay if her life ended right now. She’s done everything she’s wanted do and there’s nothing she feels that she’s missed. Her kids are 20, 16 and 11. I can’t help but wonder what that feeling must be like as I sit and look at the pictures of my kids, 20, 19 and 17 and can’t help but look forward to seeing them get married and have children. I’m so looking forward to being a grandmother – (NOT right away )if you’re reading this! I still have so many things I haven’t done or seen. At the time she said that to me I didn’t know how to respond, but now I think my response would have to be, “How sad.”