Welcome, Brenda!

My popular, energetic former co-worker at FNMA, Marilyn Olson, is affectionately known to one and all as "Mo." She and her late husband, Lyle, had one child, Brenda, and during my 10 years at Magids, I enjoyed hearing about Brenda's exploits as she got through elementary and high school and went off to college (Iowa State at Ames, I think). Then Mo and I lost touch until Mo, retired now, popped up on Facebook this spring, some 20+ years later. It's been great getting brought up to date on Mo's amazing schedule. Mo always arrived on Monday exhausted, then picked up steam as the week progressed. I was the opposite. I was fresh as a daisy on Monday and wiped out by Friday.

Mo just introduced her Facebook friends to Brenda's wonderful blog on life in small-town Iowa. How coincidental is this that her oldest (and youngest) daughter blogs about life in rural (well, that's most of the state) Iowa, and my oldest daughter, Peggy, blogs about life in rural Scotland?! Brenda and Peggy both have self-deprecating humor when it coms to naming their blogs. Brenda is no more boring than Peggy is lazy.

Gentle readers, please enjoy Brenda's Boring Blog!