Interesting Day

                          PHASE 1

About a year ago I received an e-mail from a person named Joyce Ackley.  She said she heard there was another Joyce Ackley that was a writer and she wondered if it was me.  She said she lived in Florida and was also a writer.  I answered and told her, yes, I am that writer.  Since then we have corresponded on FB.

                         PHASE 2

I informed her that I was 85 and perhaps she wasn't interested in keeping up a conversation with me.  She said she would love to.  I at once said, "Well, I guess you are my daughter and I named you after me.  She wrote back and called me Mommy.  As I wrote quotations on FB each day, she would often check like, which showed up as Joyce Ackley likes this.  I told her it was rather embarrassing, because people thought I was always liking my own posts.  So, she added her middle initial.  She now became Joyce H. Ackley.  I at once wrote back and said, "Oh no, My name is H. Joyce Ackley, don't tell me your middle name is Helen."  It isn't.  That would have really been hilarious.

                              PHASE 3

I asked her for her phone number and today I received an e-mail with the number.  I at once called her.  What fun.  I heard a lady with a sweet southern accent answer the phone and I asked if it was my little Florida daughter.  From there we had about a half-hour conversation.  We talked about everything from the weather, our aches and pains, our writing and men.  I am so glad I finally got to meet her in person.  Nice lady, nice friend, nice daughter.

Until next time
Be kind to one another