Writers

Yes, I vaguely remember Lurline Trittin talking about meeting the writer, Catherine Marshall, author of the novel "Christie," at some event that Lurline helped to organize, and Lurline was very unsatisfied with the writer's lack of something, perhaps personality, exhibiting a behavior too passive and ungenerous and inward looking. She commented that Catherine Marshall seemed rather ungrateful to the event organizers, and expressed her resentment that the author had perhaps not exhibited the proper thankfulness to Lurline and others who did all the grunt work to organize the event. Lurline prattled on and on about what a monotone and unexciting speaker she was, speculating about writers and that perhaps this is typical of writers who spend too much time thinking in their minds and locked away from society in their writing alcoves spilling their brains out onto the printed page. Blah blah blah. I always liked Catherine Marshall's books so don't really care what she was like in person. But, anyway, such is a pretty good example of the type of yakkety yak yakking coming from Lurline who, as we all know, is one of those types of people who maintain a constant stream of chitter chatter flowing from her mouth at all times. Some of us were invited over to the Trittin's house to watch the Royal Wedding of Charles and Diana. Did she serve us breakfast while we all watched the horse-drawn carriages and the cathedral and talked about the dress? Sue Olin might remember this. Sue was there. Yes, the Trittins formerly lived not far from us there in Cooper City in their house full of furniture purchased in Europe while living over there, lots of towering antique armoires that had to be modified, the legs cut off at the bottom, to fit them in the house. Lots of chitter chatter about Europe and how they know how to cook over there and how to eat, all those 10-course meals lasting for hours and hours. Makes you wonder how they get anything done if they spend all their time eating dinner. Good vegetable stew recipe they got from friends over ther. They use all fresh vegetables over there in France, unlike here in the U.S. unless you go organic. They were missionaries in Europe so they have the inside scoop on Europe. Yak yak yak. Burger King is wonderful. McDonald stinks. Why? Paul Trittin's father was a Burger King executive so they have the inside scoop on burger wars. The Trittins know all about the piano and Johnny Arcangeli. Yak yak yak. The Trittins work in the production department at Life Publishers so they have the inside scoop on work. Makes you wonder how their lives fell apart later. They were the type of people who always were on the inside track so what went wrong? They are divorced now. After the daughters were grown and married he went gay in Chicago and she moved back home to her parents in Kansas. Sad that things turned out that way but we don't know what happened later.