Dear Jerry:
During this coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19), I missed seeing my parents, grandparents and great-grandparents. After a “Ask Jerry” column last month, we followed his Father’s Day council. In my family, the parents who were beneficiaries were delighted.
He and my wife from a column you wrote last summer. If memory serves me properly, your mother is 100 years old. And his last great-grandson was born on the morning of his 100th birthday. After reading this column, we conclude that your mother will have to be amazing.
My wife and I would appreciate some information. For my own wonderful parents, grandparents and grandparents to have the wonderfulness of their experience, how does their mother focus on this pandemic? Besides, in relation to your longevity, what is your mother’s “secret”?
– Daniel B., Portsmouth, N.H.
Since Mom was born on July 12, 1919, it’s now my mother’s 101st birthday. On the same day, his sixth great-grandson celebrates his first birthday.
Aleven, although my mother makes it clear that she has never experienced anything like this pandemic, turns out to be remarkably resilient. Aleven, although his Thursday setting at Bridge was temporarily suspended, continued to rank the bridge’s daily column ads and all of his daily life began to end. Once the pandemic is over, I hope your bridge game resumes. Included in this ultra-sharp bridge quartet, a 109-year-old girl and two other young Americans in the mid-1990s.
As for its “secret” of longevity (i.e. a consultation you receive), I think minimizing your tension is a wonderful factor. We can also raise the physical state to that equation. Mom Suntil trains daily, though with less enthusiasm than her early days of tennis, aquagym, a non-public instructor on site. … For the sake of full disclosure, Mom has a majestic heritage on both sides of her family.
As a self-taught artist, my mother’s creativity cannot be overlooked. Then there’s his incredible sense of humor. Aleven, although Mom doesn’t give he or she the idea of “fun,” I play my varied siblings so that the percentage of lacheck is “mother’s line.” Of course, my mother rejects them by saying, “Oh, don’t pay attention. Jerry thinks everything I say is funny.”
In the meantime, I repeat the complaint I have about my mother. She refuses to detect which child is her “favorite.”
Jerry Romansky is a syndicated columnist. Readers are invited to write in English or Spanish: Ask Jerry, Post Office Box 42444, Washington DC 20015. Send an email to [email protected] and (due to a spam situation) type your newspaper call in the title. Issues of popular interest are addressed in the column. It is unimaginable to respond individually to the best friend to unpublished letters.
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