Prompt #45: Gifts & Gratitude

November 2022

Hi Friends,

When I was 20, my father bought me a car phone. That’s what we called cell phones back in 1991 because they were giant and hooked into the car. Nobody carried cell phones around with them the way we do now. My father was worried about me, because I often drove back and forth from California (where I went to school) to Colorado (where I taught skiing in the winter), so he got me the phone. I was upset by