ABOUT THE OLD DAME
“When you come to this time of abatement,” Dorothy Parker wrote
To this passing from Summer to Fall,
It is manners to issue a statement
As to what you got out of it all.”

In this blog I am writing about what I got out of it all—my life so far, that is. When I was a very young writer, I was advised to write about what I knew. The trouble was, I didn’t know much. Hadn’t had enough time to gather much life experience. But now that I’m at the far end of the telescope, there’s plenty of stuff to turn over and air. One of the neat things about this end of the telescope, is I can claim license to write about what interests me. So as this blog churns along, you can excpect comments on:

Alopecia areata, since I’ve been bean-bald since 2004. Chinese martial arts, since I’ve been a wushu student for fourteen years. Animal rescue—especially greyhound rescue, since I’ve been owned by several for sixteen years. Martini drinkers, since I’ve been married to two. (At different times, of course.) Writing for dollars and pleasure, since I’ve been at it for more than forty years. Retirement issues, since I used to think a Social Security check made you a retiree ... until I began to question why I was still working. And finally comment, which gives me license to write about anything I please. But whatever the subject du jour, I intended to write in the spirit of Don Marquis’s disreputable alleycat Mehitabel who observed to Archy the cockroach, “Toujours gai, kid, toujours gai.”

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