Yes, today is my Birthday! I'm 39 years old. One more year until the big four O! Boy, where did all the time go? I was running the channels the other day and came upon an episode of
Soul Train. There was a group called
B5 performing. Apparently they're all brothers ranging in age from 11 to 18. They were so cute and could dance their asses off. Then it suddenly hit me. I'm old enough to be those boys mother! Wow! I'm offically old enough to have grown children. How scary is that?
I've been feeling really nostalgic lately. Don't know why. Maybe it's the whole birthday thing. I guess that's why I spent all of Saturday and Sunday watching the
Good Times marathon on
TV Land. I forgot how much I loved that show growing up. The humor was often corny but so what. I got a kick out of it and the show was such a rarity for its time. One of the things that struck me while watching it again after all these years is how timely some of the shows topics( drug addiction, health care costs, homelessness, gun control, child abuse) still are today. Also, JJ's paintings, done by artist
Ernie Barnes, were amazing!