Dave Barry & the Goddess
Nobody Remembers…a Thanksgiving Story
Tonight I made my grandmother’s recipe for the most incredible pumpkin pie you will EVER taste. And I will tell you this story because I think it’s IMPORTANT for all the younger people sitting around the table tomorrow to REMEMBER to ask all the grandparents about their lives. Their memories…whatever gold nugget you can get out of them. Keep at them until they tell you….something.
One of my favorite stories was from my grandmother, Anna Hart. I made up the name Joy+Anna in honor of her. She was simple wife…stayed home, raised her children, cooked the meals, and loved her garden. Anyway, when she was very young, every Saturday afternoon, she would take the street car (they used to have a lot of them in St. Louis) down to a city called Baden, just North of downtown St. Louis. There she would take her favorite seat at her favorite restaruant. Her husband worked, so she spent her days alone. But back then, the city was bustling, she could travel alone. Now, you might get shot going downtown, or have your car stolen. But in my grandma’s day…St. Louis was a great city.
Anna had gone to the 1904 World’s Fair. I still have her HUGE book of pictures from it.
Anyway…
She went to Baden for that pie. That fantastic pumpkin pie. She did this every week for years, and finally the waitress there gave her the recipe. Which SHE made every Thanksgiving, and so did my mom, and now, even though I have no family but my husband and I, I still cook those pies on Thanksgiving. My husband can eat a whole one in one day.
Anyway, as you can see, in the picture above, it was around Thanksgiving (I do NOT remember the year) and Dave Barry, the famous funny man author, and his author friend Ridley Pearson, had just written a Peter Pan series of books which made it to broadway.
And SINCE I had read every single Barry book ever written,...yes…I took them a pie. LOL.
I know. Stupid. Anyway, Dave Barry had brought so much joy and laughter to me with his humor, it was the only thing I could think of to give.
He signed my book that day, and I could NEVER ever make out what he said. For years I was like…WTH? What is that word?
Later on, after many years I finally figured it out…it read…”To a Goddess.” LOL… Yes…feed a man a pie and he will be at your feet! Thanks Grandma! If only I could have read his handwriting…
I have no children to pass my Dave Barry books too, or no story to tell my Dave Barry love of humor too, and THAT’s why I want ALL my readers to remember…no matter what...ASK your FAMILY about their lives. For goodness sakes. You will regret all the questions you did NOT ask, after they are gone. I do.
Share the day, and don’t forget grandma and grandpa…you might be amazed at what you may learn.
So, take it from this nobody—have a great time today…the meaning of the universe might just be there waiting for you at the dinner table. And do a Toast for me to President Trump, Elon Musk, RFK, and all the team who got America off their butts and out to vote. Everybody in America is in good spirits because of it.
ME…I’ll be ….sleeping…because…I made too many pies.
Do NOT be Alone on Easter.
Nobody Opinion
Sigh.
This was the first Easter since I’ve had a blog, that I didn’t wish everyone a Happy Easter.
Please forgive me. I hope everyone had lots of joy, and grandkids, and children, hiding eggs all day.
It was almost 80 here today, finally spring. The flowers are already blooming. My crabapple tree is in full bloom. But my trouble started on Friday night, continued into Saturday night, and all through the Easter day.
Let’s just say I was in too dark a mood to write.
So, how about a few random thoughts of news of today….because I’m still having trouble snapping out of it.
NOBODY WONDERS
About that bridge collapse. Who knows what really happened, but it’s a first in history. And since Baltimore IS the port where all the cars come in, how convenient it is to destroy the bridge, which will affect car sales won’t it? Who will benefit from this? China, who want Elon Musk’s cars to be stopped here in the U.S? John Kerry? And so now the United States will bail out Baltimore and all its citizens?
Will illegals get the jobs to repair that bridge? And why didn’t the insurance pay for it?
To me it looks like one more knock to tear down the America economy. Bit by bit by bit.
NOBODY CARES
I watched Rosanne Barr today, being interviewed by Tucker Carlson. I didn’t realize she was such a brave and deep thinker. And not afraid. She wants to save America. And she was so much fun to listen to. A Jew, who believes in her God. If you get a chance to watch that interview, you will be amazed at the woman.
NOBODY KNOWS…
Just how ignorant and uneducated our government workers are. Surely, bringing diversity into the workforce will make all our lives less safe. As in medicine, air travel, and the running of all the major institutions that once only hired the best. Like the CIA, the FBI. And let’s not forget, the democratic Congress is full of the most uneducated, and unethical bunch of morons that has ever walked the halls of Congress. Do we trust any of them? I don’t.
NOBODY WINS
They are pushing abortion pill here in the city of St. Louis, to make sure all the young girls can destroy their babies. As Elon Musk has pointed out, this will not end well.
NOBODY REMEMBERS
Remember your holidays with your kids. I remember when my son was about 6, I had to hide Easter eggs ALL DAY LONG in the house. He would hide them, then I would. The game got old after half the day, but the memory of how much fun he had…you can’t take that away. So cherish these memories when their babies, and see joy that comes with the simple things. Don’t let them play video games all day. They can do that anytime.
Here’s another memory…my mother always wanted to boil eggs and paint them JUST WITH ME, every Easter. I thought it was silly…here she is 78. She died that year. I have this picture on my desk.
Always love your mom. Mother’s Day is coming up…don’t forget her. Mothers deserve all our love.
So, I’m off, hopefully, you all had a great Easter!
And hopefull, this dark mood will go away.
All suggestions welcomed.
Happy Mother’s Day!
About
I am a nobody. If the different classes of America were color-coded, I would be in the yucky brown, one rung up from the bottom. I grew up in Naples, Florida and live near the Mississippi River now with my husband and two dogs. I am part of the slowly disappearing middle-class. I was a musician most of my life: drummer/singer/keyboards—but I retired before the plastic surgery flu hit. I have no degrees, which could be a good thing…depending on how you view our educational system. I do have three patents…but that really doesn’t make me a somebody. The one thing that is constant in my life is my OPINIONS, which i have more than perhaps even Carl Sagan could have imagined…mostly political. (yes…my ancestors were crabby buggers)
Hopefully other nobody’s will put their opinions on my site. But, if you happen to be a somebody, you’re more than welcomed to help out.
It’s my Nobody Opinion that Nobody’s Perfect, and Nobody Cares, that Nobody Knows why Nobody Wins, and when that happens, Nobody Wonders, why Nobody Flashes, why Nobody’s Fooled, but then Nobody remembers that Nobody ALWAYS Reports the truth.
You can email me at joyanna_adams@yahoo.com
Joyanna Adams
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