It is my third day in Texas and we have finished Phase Dad of christmas are starting on Phase Mom this morning. If you grew up with divorced parents then you know what I am talking about. So far the highlights of our trip include, in no particular order:
-driving around in my dad's Clarkmobile which he has for his State Farm office and has his name, phone number and email address printed all over it.
-seeing my oldest oldest friend and her new baby.
-eating lunch at The Original Mexican Eats, a restaurant that's been in Ft. Worth since the 1920's or so. One of the dishes is called The Roosevelt because FDR ate there.
-seeing my dad's name spelled out in the flowerbed in front of his office in a 40 ft. line of topiary shrubs.
-cooking with my brother.
-thinking of funny things to say about my mother's long blonde wig that she has started wearing as a "time saver" and which makes her look like an orthodox jew or a cancer patient, you pick.
-looking out at the vast, flat, brown expanse and seeing the massive red-dotted signal towers out on the horizon. Remembering how I would stare out at them and watch them flicker the same way people in other places look out at the ocean.
-seeing Charlie Wilson's War
-negotiating the spectacular crowds of christmas shoppers at all the big box stores that are EVERYWHERE.
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