Words Spoken

"Learn to write about the ordinary. Give homage to old coffee cups, sparrows, city buses, thin ham sandwiches. Make a list of everything ordinary you can think of. Keep adding to it. Promise yourself, before you leave the earth, to mention everything on your list at least once in a poem, short story, newspaper article."
Nathalie Goldberg

I'm on my way to accomplishing this task. If I can tell a story about...well, let's see....eyebrows, elevators, jeans, online dating, and the list only goes on, then I can write about old coffee cups, sparrows, city buses, and especially thin ham sandwiches (I actually use to love hot ham and cheese sandwiches that I would smash between my hands before eating, delicious!).

One quick story about my ham sandwiches before I go for the night. When I first met my ex-husband's parents and entire family, it was like days before we actually tied the knot. We had dated for about 1 1/2 years before we actually got married, and because we were both away in the military I had never met them. My ex-mother-in-law would make some food that my ex-husband knew that I would be funny about, such as linguine with squid sauce (wouldn't touch it), so he made sure to tell her to have plenty of ham and cheese on hand for my smashed sandwiches. She did! My ex has a pretty cool family, I really like them. Still to this day they are sweet to me when they see me, even though he has remarried. They still treat me like family, more than ten years later.