09/10/2019
Monday, September 9th: Today, I kicked off "Frankly Speaking", my new venture. I had a very rewarding afternoon at Keystone Place At Buzzards Bay presenting "From Sea To Shining Sea: United States Landmarks". The crowd loved learning new facts, sharing their own travel experiences, singing along to America The Beautiful and This Land Is Your Land, and winning raffle prizes.
After today's presentation, a resident who is a former 4th grade teacher approached me. When she told me that she had taught in Middleboro, I mentioned the name of the only Middleboro teacher I knew - a woman named Yvonne who had taken several graduate course that I taught twenty years ago. The resident brightened up and said that Yvonne had been one of her closest friends and that they had lost touch. We talked about Yvonne for a while and the resident said, "I don't even know if she knows that I came here and I have forgotten her phone number. I said, "Let's see if she is on Facebook. She wasn't so I tried Plan B - whitepages.com. Five minutes later I was calling Yvonne. The two friends quickly caught up and made plans to chat again later in the evening.
Tomorrow, I am off to Autumn Glen In Dartmouth to present, "Arm Chair Traveler: Venice & Florence". Because this is National Assisted Living Week, I have six engagements this week.
Feel free to pass along my brochure to assisted living communities on the South Shore or Cape Cod.
