DANCING WITH TOM JONES...

If you read Christy Bridges’ blog (Spilled Animal Crackers) you know that every Monday she posts, from readers’ nominations, a guy that most would call a “hottie.” This week she felt obligated to post Antonio Banderas(no that's not him in the photo)…BECAUSE HER GRANDMOTHER THINKS HE’S A HOTTIE.

Heaven knows I’m not casting off on grandmothers because I am one and I think I’m still young. But it did get me to thinking about how my mother was crazy about Tom Jones (photo at right).

My mother was 58 when I was in my mid teens and she would absolutely swoon when she saw him on television. We laughed about it but my older sister took her to see him in concert and it only got worse after that. My sister said that Mama acted like a teenager and even bought a poster of him. She brought it home and put it on the wall. She thought he was hot!

The older I get the more I like his music and the more I understand that at 58 my mother was still young.

Now I classify his music as “happy” music…the kind that makes you want to dance.

And speaking of dancing to Tom’s music…check this out…