Tomorrow he’ll reach his eighth decade.

He plans to talk catastrophes with his party guests, how we’ll lose power, freeze, starve, run out of gasoline; how will we survive? That’s top of mind when you’re 80. How will I survive?

How will I survive the loss when eventually he doesn’t?

Robin Ellen Brooks is a Seattle-based writer who enjoys creating screenplays, drama and memoir. Follow along on her adventures by receiving her once-monthly newsletter postcards from sparkles here http://tinyurl.com/yef38n5j, and check out her website at robinellenbrooks.weebly.com.