“How long has it been?” It was my nearly 101 year-old mother calling.
I assumed she meant how long since we had come to see her. “I don’t know, maybe two weeks.” I was feeling guilty. After all we had decided to spend the winter in South Florida in part to be near her, and had only managed to visit every two weeks or so.
“What are you talking about? It’s been just a few days more than two months. Months, not weeks.” I then knew of course that she was referring to how long Barack Obama has been in office.
Relieved that I was off the hook for not coming by often enough, I said, “I get you. I thought that . . .” I managed to cut myself off before getting into trouble.
“I am glad to hear that, but from what I am hearing about what you have been writing in those blogs of yours, you have been giving him a hard time.”
