The year 2023 started out great for me but literally ended with a bang. I was in an automobile accident in August totaling my car. After recovering from that I tripped and fell at a school I was subbing at and broke my humorous bone. So, I’m now in physical therapy. Other than this my year’s been great. My big highlight of the year was my trip to New England in October. I’ve never been back East so I took a bus tour of the fall foliage and visited eight states. It was a wonderful tour with a great group of forty-one people from all over to whom we grew close to. We traveled from Boston to Cape Cod, Rhode Island, Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine. My favorite was the Maine rugged coastline and delicious lobster I had on a lobster roll with lobster bisque. I collected fourteen shot glasses of each city visited for my son’s collection. After the tour I flew to Philadelphia to see my friend Dr. Eloise Meneses, a high school friend who was in my wedding, whom I hadn’t seen in thirty y