My friend (Mary Marr) who lives in Michigan, keeps me laughing with all the jokes and Maxine cartoons. I'm too lazy to upload the cartoons, but ambitious enough to share some of the remarks Maxine makes - I liked these:

"A man without a woman is a bachelor - a woman without a man is a genius."

"Sure, marriage can be fun some of the time; trouble is, you're married all of the time!"

I get my summer glow from a bottle - it reads 'Zinfandel'....

Why adopt a highway when I already drive like I own the road!

Most stress is caused by 3 things; money, family, and family with no money.

Only on a cruise ship will you pay hundreds of dollars a day to sleep in a closet.

As 'gruff' as I sound; as much as I laugh at Maxine, I remember my favorite time in life was being up at 2:00 in the morning; feeding my little babes, and rocking them near the window as I'd look out at the night. Sometimes it was winter snow piled up; other times it was barren trees with colored leaves scattered on the lawn. I could hear the sounds of the owl; the summer nights the windows were open as I rocked and smiled at my nursing child.

It would often be a spring rain that had come up - off and on; I loved hearing the water run down the water-spout....

I would change my baby's diaper; smooth their hair - hug them up close under my chin, and play with their fingers and toes as they started to fall back to sleep. I'd lie down on the davenport; put them on my tummy, and wait for them to fall to sleep. Nothing smells sweeter than a baby; nothing ever gave me so much joy and peace. I repeated that with my grand-children, and now they're all grown up. Time really does go too fast - we must not miss a single precious moment with our children and loved ones.