Well, my story on this is that my son and I were in Chicago together and we went to this nice little restaurant, really close to our hotel and several tables away like the way I, the table that I was facing, I could see these two young people talking to each other and I saw the, the woman hold up her hand and like point to it, like, you know, just like Michiganders do. And so I said to my son, "Oh, hey, I think there's two people over there. I'm guessing like they might be on a first date, because I think she just showed him where she lived in Michigan.” And I basically, you know, held up my hand and did the same thing, like I was just showing him what she was doing. Well, she happened to be looking up like my way when I did it and she saw me doing it and I guess saw me glancing her way and like our eyes kind of met. I just -- I think she instantly understood, like, I'm from Michigan, she's from Michigan. And I don't know, I just, we had this like little bit of fellowship there for a minute and I definitely felt like a real Michigander then.  It's funny because not growing up in Michigan I feel like there are a lot of Michigan things that I'm just not as familiar with that I might be if I had grown up here, you know, that's because I would have taken civics class in high school or because I'd be traveling around with my family. So there's still a lot of places like I don't know necessarily where they are like if you had to, if I had to hold up my hand like a mitten and point out where different towns are I not sure, I do great on it, but I do, I do, most of the time, I feel like a Michigander, I'm proud of this place, I stick up for this place. Glad I live here.

My parents were older, you know, by the time I came around and it's like they did do stuff, but they also didn't, if that makes sense. But I do remember a time, I think you know maybe it was for Easter or something. I’d gotten this, we’d gotten this plastic baseball bat which was a lot larger. It was probably like two or three times as round as a normal baseball bat. It was like for little kids. And some plastic balls with it, and we were in the backyard, and we kinda had these like, little you know, little makeshift diamonds or whatever they call them, and, it was my, you know, and we -- plus like my oldest nephews who were around my age and they lived with us for the most part. So it was like several of us and we all played, you know with and with my dad and stuff and older brother all played, like a little makeshift baseball, and so that was really memorable, a lot of fun.

This week you asked us if there was ever something that we thought would never end like an endless chain of scarves. And it made me think real hard. And I think a lot of us -- or at least me, thought that feeling would never end. That feeling when we were young. That feeling that we had all summer long, that feeling of wonderment, and curiosity, and excitement, and freedom. And, you know -- just your body didn't hurt. Your mind hadn't been broken by a thousand cruel people yet. And you really, you really felt like summer was never gonna end. You just felt like there would be a million more sunsets to ride your bikes into with your friends. You thought there would be a million more days to walk through the woods and you know pick up little weird stuff you find and carve your name into a million trees and you just, you feel like being a kid is never gonna end and then before you know it -- before, you know it truly, truly, truly -- you're middle-aged, and you're a grandma, and you wish, for one second, you could feel that way again. You wish you could just get up out of your wheelchair and start walking and never have to sit back down. But you could just walk down to the pond, down the street, down past the woods, and go swimming with your friends. Hang out by the gravel pit. Smoke a couple cigarettes even though you shouldn't. It really does feel like it's not gonna end back then. And I kind of wish it never did.

Years ago, my son had friends over all the time. Our house was a house where everybody was welcome and the kids would come over and they’d play video games, and they knew that somewhere down the line, I would make them a mystery ice cream sundae a mystery ice cream sundae would be something like, you take a tulip glass and you look in your cupboard. You see what's in there. If you have cereal, candy, all kinds of things, it was a surprise Sunday.  So, how does that apply to a coat? Well, the kids were here and there all the time and they came in they would either put the coats in the closet or just throw them on the floor someplace. We didn't care. Well, one day when we were looking for something in the closet, maybe even cleaning it ,we found this Nike jacket. We asked everyone, whose Nike jacket it was, it was in really good shape, size medium, and it's more than a Meijer jacket. And none of his friends would say it was their jacket, so then I went to my nephews, asked every single person. Nope, wasn't their jacket. It was just a mystery jacket that magically appeared in her closet. It has no owner but now I use it to work out in the yard because it's just very lightweight and it has enough water repellent on it but. Jackets just don't appear in your closet and it was the craziest thing because somebody was missing a very nice jacket.