Monthly Archives: July 2011

When the phone rings at 1:00 am

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It was 1:00 am when my phone rang and I knew as I reached for it to answer that it would not be good news. When the phone rings in the middle of the night it is never good news.

A woman was calling, crying, to tell me that her son had just committed suicide by taking a massive prescription drug overdose. Both the mother and her son work for us in the warehouse, third shift. So she was calling to let me know that they would not be at work this morning. The bad news was a shock – I had no idea her son was so depressed that he would ever do anything like that and now I feel guilty for not paying more attention to him. How could I not see that something was so terribly wrong in his life that he would do this? But then, it came as a complete surprise to his mother, too.

Great Fourth

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Lat night we watched some spectacular fireworks. Every year the City puts on a free show that is accompanied by the Nashville Symphony. I heard estimates that almost 200,000 people were downtown last night to watch the fireworks show. That is incredible. Thankfully, we avoided that mass of people downtown and went to a little place that I know about on a hill near the fire department. It was very nice weather, the show was great and we were home in less than 20 minutes after it was over.

Holiday Weekend

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This weekend is the Fourth of July holiday weekend. The price of gas shot up almost 30 cents a gallon yesterday, as it always does right before a big traveling weekend.

I know a lot of people will be heading for the beach. We are staying home this year. Our vacation won’t come until October when we go to DC for two weeks

Looking forward to watching the fireworks here – we’ll probably go downtown rather than the show being hosted by the new shopping center in Mt Juliet. The traffic is bad downtown but it is ten times worse in Mt. Juliet. I’m sure the fireworks show will be just as good at either place, so I’m choosing the one with the least traffic congestion after it is over.