[jenny]

~ I don't like odd numbers. (Except for prime numbers, but that's another story entirely.) In fact, since I was three years old, I've only lived in even numbered houses, and all of the house numbers (I've lived at six different addresses since then) have been divisible by four. Four, it so happens, is my favorite number.

~ I once went on a blind date with a rabbi. I always thought it would make a great short story... "The Rabbi and the Atheist." (Okay, so I'm more agnostic than atheist. Still.)

~ Until puberty, my eyes were bright blue. During puberty, my eyes changed to green, and for most of my adult life have been a very deep shade of green. Since perimenopause, my eyes have changed again, and now vacillate between green and blue.

~ During my nursing career, I witnessed literally hundreds of births, and I got teary at every single one of them.

~ Years ago, one of my employees fell down the stairs that go into the basement of my office, and her foot went through the wall. (Yes, she went to the hospital. No, she didn't sue me.) To this day, I keep a row of boxes of paper against that wall, so if anyone falls down the stairs again, at least I won't need to patch another hole in the wall.