Mermaid in the Currents

Thanks to my friend Barbara for sending me this email! I laughed so hard I almost well, youOnce again, The Washington Post has published the winning submissions to its yearly neologism contest, in which readers are asked to supply alternative meanings...

Let me prefice this post with the fact that I know NOTHING about football. I wasn't even mildly interested in it until i found out this year that the players don't wear underwear. It has been the saving grace in my occasionally unavoidable viewing.
Fort Lauderdale, FL., 26 years ago.......

I am not sure if I am mature enough, strong enough, tough enough to handle this holiday. My oldest child, a man with a family of his own, is 750 miles away. My youngest who still lives at home at 22, is working until 9:30 pm.
I still bought a 19 lb. turkey. Where are my sisters, laughing with me in the kitchen as we drink wine and dance and cook?...

I have to call today a rainbow day. You can be driving along, thinking about all the things you haven't done, have to do, or wish you done and then you see a rainbow and all that "stuff" is forgotten in the sheer wonder and beauty of God's prism strewn...