Author Yvonne Ortega blesses us with today’s Fascinating Friday post!

Ouch! What’s going on? These boots are supposed to be my comfortable ones. The rain is attacking me vertically and horizontally. I need to get the trash can to the curb for pickup. Gremlins must have put nails in my knee-high rain boots. 

They were buried in the back of the hall closet. Only gremlins could get in there. 

I looked down at those shiny black boots. My other shoes fit. My snow boots fit, and the company that made them made the rain boots in the same size. 

Forget the logic. That’s for mathematicians and scientists. I prefer languages, music, and dancing. I would do well as Mary Poppins.  

Help me, Lord. I can sing and dance in the rain but to suffer for an unknown reason seems unfair. Your servant Moses put up with those grumblers in the desert for forty years. For one act of disobedience, you didn’t let him go into the Promised Land. What did I do wrong?

I have writing deadlines to meet. Either stop the rain or the pain without taking me home early. Please find me a remedy.

Hmm. Last year, women saturated their legs in Vaseline to slide into tight jeans. This year, they wear yoga pants. I can coat my feet with Vaseline before I wear those boots again. 

Once back in the house, I removed those torture chambers.

I put my hand into the left boot. Out came a balled-up plastic bag. The same thing happened with the right boot. I remembered a trip to Canada before the pandemic. It rained. On my return, it didn’t. To prevent crushing the boots in my suitcase, I put a plastic bag in the toe of each one.

The boots look great. My feet are crushed, but I can write.

Yvonne Ortega speaks with honesty and humor as she shares her struggles to help women find freedom, joy and peace in life’s challenges. She’s multi-interviewed for her Moving from Broken to Beautiful® Book Series. Yvonne celebrates life at the beach where she walks, blows bubbles, builds sandcastles, and dances.