I know what you mean about your parent's calls. My Mom calls at least weekly with the morbidity and mortality report. Mom's big on sickness and will go to the hospital to visit people she hardly knows. But she really specializes in funerals.

Not only does she describe in detail the floral arrangements, the music, the sermon, and what everyone wore, she reports how the deceased looked in the casket and she's a funeral food expert.

She'll take food to any life event, but she specialized in feeding the bereaved. It's where she and her friends test out new recipes. She gives a detailed report of who brought what and how it tasted and how it looked and who ate what and who liked it and what went untouched. It's a senior cooking class.

I guess I'm following in her footsteps. More and more I find myself taking food to dinners after funerals and the families of loved ones in the hospital.

I guess my life too will eventually become just one huge morbidity and mortality report.

[ January 04, 2004, 11:07 AM: Message edited by: smilinize ]