I’m sorry I missed writing my blog last week. but I am having trouble with my spine. I suppose you might be thinking,”two weeks ago she wrote that she was soon to be 90 years old. shouldn’tshe expect pain while walking?”

I don’t believe that, but I once believed it. I’d see an old person walking along with obvious pain and I’d feel sorry for that person. I thought that was a necessary thing  for old people and now that I am old I know better. God put me on this earth  and gave me certain days to live. Many people don’t realize that  but God is in control. Not only are we to live but we should do whatever we can to make things better right where we live. I don’t remember Moses ever retired. In fact, he just started his leadership when he was more that 80 years old! And the job he gave him was more than what we ever have to do. Just read his story. It’s in Exodus the second book in the Bible.

I have done pretty well for myself if you don’t mind my bragging. I have written and published a book and have another under construction and I sing solos whenever I am asked. I sing with a chorus of over 50 voices and have been quite irregular there because of my spine. I have been irregular in attending church too, and I have changed my mind. I have been to many doctors without change, but yesterday I went to a quite a different doctor and he asks the question, ” Are you ready to get well?” I answer “Yes” and I know,after reading his book and watching my son really changing his life, I answered correctly.

Our singing group named “The Marshallaires sing mainly to Nursing or retirement homes every Thursday, and when I look at the faces of many, who are younger than myself, who have given up. I tell them there is always something they can do. For instance, they can pray. We sure need some of that in our America!

I know from watching my son. The doctor will, at each meeting  adjust his spine and the rest is up to him. He is given exercises and told him the benefits of icing each time he is hurting and there are several exercise equipment he should use each time he comes in.The doctor depends on us to live without pain. I have always had a negative feeling toward chiropractors, but this one is different, sort of like a gym along with Chiropractic medicine. I have had one meeting with him and I have decided to get well by doing everything he advocates. The name of his practice is Zenaptic Chiropractic in Vancouver Washington. Soon, I’ll be walking without pain. I really will!

That’s right! I’ll be 90 on May 18. And I’ve gone through many world and personal  changes these past 90 years. I like some of the changes but many I would like to see today. Neighbors talked “over  the fence” to neighbors, now we don’t even know their names. We don’t even know what our  family members are interested in. When they come to my house, they say, “Hi” but then sit down on the couch with their smart phones and look at what ever it is to look at.

I wish we had phones that hang on the wall. Everyone was on the same line as we were so we would run to the phone to “rubbernek”, and if someone had some trouble, we would go to help them.I remember our phone number. It was 58! Easier to recall, don’t you think?

Washing clothes was a really big thing in those days. We had to carry water at least a block and then heat it up on our wood burning stove and then scrape the big bar of soap into little pieces and put the soap into the wash water. Then we had to wash and rinse the clothes and hang them outdoors to dry. It took all day. I like seeing the washer and dryer siting side by side these days! After the clothes were hanging, it was time for our baths, so one at a time, we kids would get into the wash tubs.  was glad there was only three kids in our family!

We didn’t have a radio or television, but we cranked up the old Victoria and listened to the same songs over and over. But we did have pianos. One of the things I miss is the many evenings we gathered around the piano to sing until Mom called us to say coffee is done.I guess the television is better, but I wish we could have some singing around the piano.

Prayer in school was important during my school days. Everyone went to church and Sunday school and we were let out of school one hour a week for Bible Study. Dad was the one who taught the Lutheran study and the priest taught the Catholic study. There was only those two churches in my town.

Yes, I have seen changes in our part of the world. I grew up in the big depression, World War II, and many of the smaller wars, and now we have Issis and other terrorists to worry about. Living was much more simple when I was growing up, but most of the changes were good ones. We must admit that change is not without it’s negative concepts. We have trouble in our beloved America and the ones to change it is us, not the politicians. We, the American people must work to change our land.