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A story of girlhood friendships, Why Don't We Just...? is a look backward to a decade that began over sixty years ago.
Janet Ruth and I were born towards the end of World War II. We tip-toed through the Korean War, came of age during the Eisenhower years, participated in the beginnings of school integration, sowed seeds of a lifetime friendship through girlhood antics, and were both married with a child by the end of that decade.
In those ten years, as unmarried women, we missed Title IX, birth control pills, the Sexual-Revolution, the Civil Rights movement, the Women's Movement, legalized abortion, and drugs, (well, we did try diet pills). We adopted our parent's generation faster than what was to follow us.
With no organized girls' sports and a lot of energy, ideas and freedom to wander, Janet Ruth and I, along with other friends, got busy creating the adventures and misadventures of these stories. We were privileged not so much with the wealth of means, but with the wealth of belonging, and built a lifetime of memories together. As Janet Ruth once wrote me,
"We were our childhoods. I cannot remember mine without recalling yours."
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Trained as a physical therapist, Patty Mac Sloan Hewitt is a self-starter and entrepreneur. Her business experience began at the age of seven when it occurred to her that she could sell tickets to the neighborhood kids to see her new baby brother. Since then she has started three antiques businesses, organized 3 Masters Track Meets and run multiple fundraisers for non-profits and churches.
Inspired by her husband's college roommate and track mate who came to visit and run the Boston Marathon, she began running when her last child was a toddler. She soon found a coach and track team to train with and began competing for fun. Two marathons and organizing and competing in Master Track events led to working for the Boston Marathon. She has spent 4 years of her life living in Canada and Singapore, and has amassed a lifetime supply of travel adventures.
But her greatest achievements, aside from raising a family of strong-willed, lively human beings are the rich friendships she has developed and kept, beginning in her childhood days in Bartlesville, Oklahoma.
