A Duty Well Done

Yesterday was Election Day. I can't remember a time I've missed an election day since I registered as a voter. They are all special one way or another. Some better than others.

No matter how elections turn out, it is win-some and lose-some, isn't it? Here in Tennessee we had a whopper of a senatorial race. The less said about the ads the better.

But what I come away with is that my husband and I struck up a friendship with a woman who was between us in line. We found out she's new to the area, doesn't know her way around too well yet, and is alone a lot. Since we don't live far from the place where we voted, we told her to follow us home, and we gave her a generous slice of husband's banana bread, a copy of my latest book and told her things she needs to know about the community -- mainly about our church's Thanksgiving Dinner on the 18th.

So the election didn't go completely the way I wanted it -- WE made a new friend! It was a good day!