I was enjoying dinner with three other friends at The Great Wall Chinese Restaurant, located in Ruidoso New Mexico. At the end of our meal, as the tradition goes, our waiter brought us a plate with eight fortune cookies and laid it in the center of our table. The Great Wall falls on the fancier side of Chinese restaurants, so these fortune cookies were larger and didn't come wrapped in plastic like most others. I held out the plate for each of my friends to pick their first cookie before picking one for myself. The turns began that we read aloud the fortune found inside our cookie, and I went last. Yes, of course, as the fortunes were read, the words 'in bed' had to be added at the end. Tradition, right? Anyway, like I said, I went last, but when I broke open my fortune cookie, there was no fortune inside it. "Ha ha ha," teased my friend Frank, "your not lucky." "No luck fo yoo." quipped his gal, Ki...
Hello! Here you'll find my thoughts, anecdotes, rants, raves, and true stories relating some of the experiences I've lived during this epic lifetime. I invite your scrutiny and criticisms for constructive purposes, I don't even mind comments meant to be rude, as long as you intend to play fair; but what I look forward to the most are comments from like-minded folks to open dialogue with. Blessings, T