Logic does not make the world go round or even go square. I was sitting on the couch watching an episode of Gilmore Girls where they are going round and round in a crazy conversation…
And then I thought, “I don’t know how all of this happened!”

One day I was young and now I forget the simplest things. Over a horrible supper of frozen Brussel sprouts and carrots and some instant potatoes…..I got up and threw the sprouts and carrots in the trash (and I was the one that bought them.)

As Rob and I were at least eating the instant potatoes (which are always good), I told him that when I talked about my father and his siblings, I never mentioned Aunt Vera, whose namesake I am. She and my father were very close. She died of breast cancer right before I was born. My mother said a baby just didn’t sound like “Vera,” and that is how Vicki came about. My initials were VCK. Stick in two “I”s and you have it.

And just as Vicki was not the best name for a baby, it is also not the best name for a senior citizen. Oh, well, I don’t know how all of this happened.

What I mean by this is that everything hinges on everything else and the damned hinges are rusty and squeaky by now.

Here in America we are coming apart at the “seems” and overseas, innocents are being slaughtered in the name of….I have no idea.

Humanity could not be less “groovy” right now. And no one knows how all of this happened. I know why I get fat if I eat a whole sack of peanut butter cups; I just don’t know why it hurts so much to be a human being. Even if you are doing well, maybe your neighbor isn’t. Logic does not explain the human heart, which is full of both evil and good.

Okay, I have said my piece now. Back to The Gilmore Girls.

Vicki Woodyard