Aunt Vira was 102. I texted her and asked to visit but copied her granddaughter—assuming she would give her the message. Vira replied immediately: “Please visit anytime except Wednesdays and Thursdays are my meetings and Sundays are Church.

BTW, my granddaughter does not know my schedule!”

Mary Schreiner lives in Green Bay, Wisconsin. She enjoys pine forests and the way corn fields wither in fall.