Memories and Warnings

 Mom, who'd lived all her life in Ohio, had a hard time adjusting when Dad's company moved him to Texas and was always comparing Texas to Ohio in a negative way so Fio, of course, did the same. which she didn't realize, was why she didn't have many friends at school. Her awakening came when, in her first year of junior high, raised her hand, and remarked about how Ohio did something or other better than Texas did and her mild-mannered teacher paused, looked at her and said,  "Fiorella, not everything is better in Ohio." 

Instantly realizing what an ass she had been making of herself all semester, Fio burst into tears and put her head down on her desk for the rest of the class--but she survived and learned a good lesson that she never forgot it.

Actually, Fiorella has done or said so many things in her life that she regrets--and unfortunately, she remembers every one of them with crystal clarity. Shudder....

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It's almost April, the dandelions are in full bloom, the sun is shining, occasional raindrops have dampened Fiorella's shoulders, and the mischievous wind has lifted her straw hat and carried it a few feet into the air before she could catch up with it.😊

OMG, we just had a tornado warning--a scary thing to someone who grew up in Waco, where far too many people ignored the long hoot because supposedly the local Indians had long ago said the Bosque River was safe from such. (The death toll was 114, and that included one of Fio's friends

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What do you think of this new way for Fio to tell her stories? She wandered into it accidentally and likes the way it can let her stay on the same subject, yet divide it into meaningful segments. If only the divisions weren't so distant......

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Do you like the way Fiorella is dividing her background? It allows her to have more than one paragraph about a single item, like she did in the first two paragraphs