The cold was here. Waiting for me.

I’ve caught a cold. First of the winter season. Not bad. For getting this far. Thought for a while I’d make it through winter without a cold. That would have made me feel guilty. Everybody deserves at least one cold. Especially if one lives in Minnesota. The land of deep freezes and deep snow. But I spent almost three months in Sardinia. An idyllic island in the Mediterranean Sea. But I came back to Minnesota about 10 days ago. To see if I could catch a cold. Sure enough. The cold was here. Waiting for me. –Jim Broede