True, you’ve read or heard enough 2016 summaries. Too bad, here’s one more. Mine. As an educator I taught young minds how to “map” their thoughts and now I do the same – a T chart. My third graders believed it stood for Tatum.
The positives burst forth on the left and the negatives repeatedly “emojoed” their tongues on the right. Here I go:
1. I am a grandmother/ 1. The National Election
2. I lost 22 pounds/ 2. NC Tarheels lost the national basketball championship
3. My fifth novel, Silver Cotton, was published by Rebel Ink Press in both e-book and paperback/ 3. The NC Elections
4. Giggled in a British pub with my sister/ 4. Dear friends adapting to widowhood
5. Traveled to London and Lubbock/ 5. NC politics
6. Made several trips to my swamp…..nothing better, nothing else, egad and amen
Enough!
Eleanor Tatum 
Not a bad year!