Several month back I found my dear friend Susan on Facebook. We went to elementary school and junior high together but hadn’t seen each other since 1978, when I moved back to my hometown from the mountains. Over the course of the summer and fall we’ve managed to get together quite a bit and share memories, books and our love of writing. SuzeCate bravely began to blog and has turned into a prolific and wildly entertaining writer at The Water Witch’s Daughter. She runs the gamut of emotions and shares the simpliest things in a unique and engaging way. I’m getting ready to head out to LA and as SuzeCate says, I’m really going to miss our wine and life-gab sessions. Last night after a few glasses of vino, we attempted to co-write a blog together. This is about three friends who’ve kept in touch (throughout the years and throughout life’s twists and turns and moves etc. . .) since elementary school. Only two were available for the pic.

Susan and I co-writing our blog.

Karal. Nan. Susan.

Half of the Schuyler Horse Club. The wanna-be horse owners.

All wanted a horse. None ever owned a horse. None any longer desire a horse. In fact none care too much for horses any more.

This leads to the question of what have they had in common through the years and what connects them now.

They all like wine.

All have been married. Two are divorced. Two have kids.

Two have dogs. One has cats.

They all like wine.

One can sorta sing. One thinks she can sing after two shots of tequila. One can’t sing at all and won’t inflict that pain on her worst enemy.

All agree that the meal worm experiments and pendulum studies in elementary school were way stupid.

They all like wine.

All were afraid of the old woman ghost with long fingernails that Regina told them killed herself in the school bathroom. None want to go back to elementary school girls bathroom. All are still afraid.

Two write blogs. One reads blogs.

They all like wine. (Karal wants to know red or white, Susan says it doesn’t really matter at this point!)

All agree that Miss Hunter was the coolest elementary school teacher EVER.

All disliked the same girl from those school days – what? She was MEAN!

All three love the ocean.

All three are glad to have stayed in touch through the years.

They all love wine!