When we received our assignments for our special section on the upcoming total solar eclipse in April, it brought back a funny memory.
It was fifth grade, 1970, when we studied what eclipses were and how they occurred. I remember being told there wouldn’t be another one like it until spring of 2024 (which turned out not to be true — re: 1979 and 2017). It seemed like an eternity to me and my friends back then, so we made up a rhyme.
“I’m a little old lady, I’m 63, and I’m gonna watch the eclipse on TV.”
Well, I am 63 now, and far from a little old lady — at least that’s what I think most days. Maybe I’ll consider myself an old lady when I get to my mother-in-law Vada’s age. She’s nearly 93, which she finally acknowledged after about two years of thinking she was 10 years younger.........