You can tell a lot from a refrigerator

 

You can tell a lot about a family by their refrigerator doors. 

Go into a house with school children and their papers or report cards will be displayed. Others may have schedules and agendas such as Jason Little League Try Outs under March 25. Mary Dentist in the April 7th box.

A friend, a writer, had one of those magnetic word sets that were on the fridge door. She would arrange them in sentences and when she was really ambitious, she'd do a haiku.

Rick and I married late. He is an aviation journalist. I specialized in financial cooperatives.  I also have 17 books to my credit. We traveled a lot. Our trips took us around Europe and sometimes to Canada and the United States. Some were for articles we were writing others were research for my books. Exploring for fun included museums and just things that caught our fancy. Our fancy was easily caught.

I don't remember why we started buying a magnet whereever we went. It was early on. A dozen years later our fridge is covered. The photo is the front, but the sides are also covered. We had so many magnets that Rick used the front of our two stairs leading from the kitchen to the bathroom by cutting metal plates to match the stair, covering the strip with magnets and gluing the strip onto the stair.

We have our favorites. Mine will always be from the now defunct Newseum in Washington, D.C. It says "Not tonight, I'm on deadline." We have one bought in Edinburgh of a kilted Scotsman. When you push the plaid bag, it plays a few notes.

What does it tell you about our couple? That we like museums and not the ordinary ones like the Pig Museum.  www.schweinemuseum.de/museum-enm in Stuttgart. We deliberately look for the unusual museums. We like the houses of writers. Duh. We're writers. Galleries and homes of artists. 

But there was also a life size tulip magnet, a reminder of our trip to Amsterdam. There we had a BnB on a houseboat. We have visited battlefields and historic sites.

When we look at our fridge we can be swamped with memories all good ones. With today's catastrophic wars, the coming apart of the U.S. Government and the world order, there is a certain comfort from a refrigerator that reminds us of the good and simple things in life.

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