I was digging deep again, as I do every year or so, into my box of keepsakes and relics that I really don't know why I kept them but did. Stuff I wrote as a kid (some of that, I must say, rather disturbing), old letters of the real life mailed sort, newspaper clippings of miscellany, that have strangely yellowed and gotten brittle already and that shit just ain't right since it seems not so long ago ... whatever, I'm getting old. From the Kansas City Kansan , newspaper that we got delivered daily, Friday, July 25, 1975, I had cut out and kept this one particular article headlined "Youngster completes first novel." I was always writing as a kid, so I remember very well snipping this one item, on account of the twelve-years-old youngster was my same age, and I very much wanted my own novel published. Of course I hadn't written it yet, but I figured this proved I could do it, too, kept it for an affirmation thingy. Over the years I've remembered saving that s...
Well, at least I'm safe in here. So true...you do "appear normal."
ReplyDeleteAppearances can be deceiving. "One never knows when the homosexual is about."
ReplyDeleteI KNEW it!!! I caught it from Aunt Vi!! Wow, she had soooo many people around her in her 102 years...that explains why there are more homos now. OH NO!! Somebody warn her nursing home to disinfect!!! She is about.
ReplyDeleteOmg, you mean it's contagious? Okay I do love this blog, so don't mind me when I arrive in my mask and hosital garb. "NOT that there's anything wrong with it." *Seinfeld line...ha*
ReplyDeleteDiane - I thought that was funny, the "being about" part. Don't know why it struck me that way, you just don't hear it so much anymore. Altho now there are more 'mos about than ever before, probably good idea to alert Vi's nursing staff.
ReplyDeleteYes, Lumina, better safe than sorry. :-)