YoU MuSt HuMor me TodaY!!
Guiding Light... after 72 years...
is going off the air.
Friday is the last day.
It's sad.... I haven't watched
in years... so I am
partly responsible...
although I totally
blame the
WRITERS
and PRODUCERS.
I mean.... they got rid of Ross!!!
Jerry ver Dorn played Ross and is now on
One Life to Live....
Ross married Blake
and became
BLOSS!
I was a Blossie!
This was in the beginning of the internet... we didn't have
Yahoo Groups yet.
There were all kinds of message boards though and it was
where I became obsessed with the internet and all
it's possibilities.
Jerry and I became pen pals... of a sort. I'm sure he wrote to a lot of people. But none of the other Blossies had this relationship. So I thought I'd just give you a peek at some of my treasures... 
Yes, Jerry sent me his Emmy invitation.... I think that was a year he won.... don't ask me to remember right now.
He knew I quilted (back then) and encouraged me to send a quilt in.
Blake and Ross had just had twins and I made it as
a baby quilt.
In the photo above you can also see the label
I put on the back of the quilt showing it was
from all the Blossies.
I was blown away when I saw it on screen. It appeared at least
two days....
One day it was on the back of the couch.
Another day Jerry/Ross was FOLDING it!!!
He was folding laundry and he had it in
his lap folding it!!!!!!!!
I have those episodes on VHS tapes... need to update that.
Yes, he sent me a script! Which I might add I could sell on Ebay...but never would.
Liz wrote, too. Below is a peek at her baby's toes and a note.
She also sent some other pics to one of the other Blossies
and we all shared.
We sent her a stuffed Dumbo that I bought at The Disney Store in
Houston (It's a BLOSS thing) when her real life
child was born.
Emily has a YouTube Site full of Bloss! She is one of my old Bloss friends.... I met one of them SKN... on my trip to
San Francisco. Some of the girls met in NYC at a Guiding Light gathering
in 2001. There are pictures...somewhere...
One day I was picking my daughter up at elementary school and Robert Newman was outside getting his niece or nephew!!!!! I was beside myself. I knew that his sister lived here, where I live, but never dreamed I'd run into him at school. I, of course, (I'm NOT shy) talked to him! I'm sure my daughter still remembers that!
I grew up watching soaps in the 50's and 60's with
my mother and my grandmother.
It was a different time.
Thanks for listening....
