Visit from an old friend......

I'm waiting for a call from my old friend that moved to Michigan six years ago. She returns about this time every year with her husband to attend a conference for his company. We've made tentative plans to go to dinner tonight to catch up. She likes to hit all her old haunts when she gets back in the area but I'm not ready for a long trip to find a restaurant when there are plenty of others nearby. Suffering a little stiffness in the neck today. Once again it was from sleeping poorly.

Finished "A Ticket to Ride" by Paula McLain. A short novel set in 1973. The main character is an insecure, motherless teenager who falls under the spell of an older more worldly cousin. The cousin is walking trouble. They are headed for ruin at 15 and 16 with the lifestyle the older has decided on. Drink, drugs, and men much too old for them. One learns from the tragedy of the summer and one doesn't.