Veseventures

"Are you going to get up early to watch it?" Nancy, one of my co-workers, asked. It was the upcoming royal wedding between Prince Harry and Meghan Markle , and the group of co-workers answering phones at our end of the phone room had been talking about it most of the morning between calls. I answered no , 4:30 A.M. was too early to get up for anything not absolutely necessary. For most of that week, it seemed that everyone was talking about the upcoming wedding. And who could blame anyone? Prince Harry was marrying an American who was biracial, divorced, and had worked as an actress. The last time a British royal married an American divorcee was was King Edward VIII in 1936 ( "Cheers, Prince Harry! But the last time a British royal married an American, it didn’t go well." ), and it cost him the throne; Edward was given the choice of marrying "that woman," as socialite Wallis Simpson was known, or staying on the throne. For the record, Edward abdicate...

After a long unintentional break from Life in the Left-Hand Lane , I'm finally back to posting. Depending on your point of view, that can be either a good or bad thing (or, maybe, simply neutral thing). There are times when life gets complicated, when one gets way too busy, and some of the things we love doing gets pushed to the side. That's what happened here. A new job, rearrangement of circumstances, general havoc, and, well, you get the picture. But at least I'm back to posting here. Will there be my observations of things going on, both in my personal life and/or in life in general that happens to more than my immediate family? Definitely. Will there be occasional political posts? Most likely. (Yup, I still don't like a certain person in the White House, one who has followed Barack Obama, but then, I'm entitled to my opinions and reasons. We're still allowed freedom of speech, etc. here in the U.S. I may not agree with you, or you with me, but we...