On Being 70… and All That Jazz!!
Along the byways of this life the years pass, sometimes without much ado; other times there is a splash of some sort… Just yesterday I was worried about what was I going to do about my hair and ho to comb it for the prom… today, well, let’s just say that hair is not my most pressing issue. In fact, its relative absence from the top makes it easier when it comes to just pushing it back… Life is worth celebrating. Life is worth living. Yes, there are moments when these concepts or if you will, feelings, are put to a harsh test but in the end, they do, like the mythical Phoenix, manage to be reborn and help you face whatever comes your way. Well, almost any “whatever”… Sometime ago, a friend of mine who has been following the blog for a number of years (actually, since it began some 6 years ago… ) said to me… “why don’t you do a compendium of a chosen number of entries and put it together into a manuscript or, perhaps even a book?” I have to say that the idea sounded a bi...