Aretha Has An Announcement

Noon meal at the nursing home and everyone is there chowing down and talking. Before dessert is served there’s an announcement to be made and Maxine is the one to do it from somewhere in the room. But few can see her since she’s tiny just turned 90 and cannot stand. She’s been doing this for years and once she starts talking even the deaf believe they hear. She's their Aretha when she booms “Let’s be in the day room, folks, at 3. It’s our flu shot time of year." Donal Mahoney