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Sometimes, like last Monday night, I wonder how I look to people. I have photos of my grandmothers at my same age and I think they look much, much older than this age that I’m not telling you here. My medical friend Nancy says that has to do with medicine and nutrition being so much better now than it was then. My grandmothers also didn’t dye their hair, which may have to do with it, too! I didn’t used to dye my hair, until about the year 2003 when my friend got married and I was the baby wrangler, as she had a new baby at the time, and I took care of the baby at the event so she could have a good time. My hair was happily gray, but the bride’s mama, who was much older than we were, had dyed her hair a golden blond, was wearing a mini skirt and was out on the floor dancing the night away. While I loved taking care of the baby, EVERYONE came to me to ask, “Are you her grandmother?” And the very next day I went and got my hair did RIGHT! And it’s been one color or another, ever since. Monday evening I got interviewed for a radio podcast! A real one! When I know more about it (if it’ll even air and I don’t want to jinx it by saying anything at all about it!) I’ll tell you about it, but that’s only the set-up for this story, now. The radio producer is a young woman of about . . . late twenties, I’d say. (See? How do people look to me?) But I’ve spent most of my adult life in the world of Production (festival production, show production, movie production – Production!) and I know very well what I’m doing. Production people are a special lot and we are efficient and good at what we do. But I was being interviewed, so there not as a Production Person, but as a person who used to own Elmer’s and that’s a whole different world! And she, the interviewer was the very capable Producer! And I, Older Production Person, wondered how she, Younger Production Person saw me as: As an old person? As a retired person? As a “Bless her heart, she’s got stories of the grand days” person? Or as I see myself, a Grown Person of no age who is doing a whole lot of stuff! Often times, like when the XM Sirius people call me to try to get me to subscribe to all the channels they have, I cheerfully say, “I’m old! I’ve lived ALL these years without that and so I don’t care about it! You got to call the young ‘uns! They care!” My favorite old person ever was Miss Rose, back in the neighborhood who used to say, “I’m seventy-two years old! These chirruns now, when they beef, they all be shootin’ each other with guns! Back in my day, we had to use our fists!” Now, that’s OLD! It’s not an important question, if I seem old to the young’uns – it’s just one of those things that makes me laugh the next day. By the way! Speaking of back in the day and the nutrition that we always think was wholesome, natural and from-the-earth in the good old days before processed food and the FDA, do you know about The Poison Squad?? Read this! It’s FASCINATING! No wonder my grandmas looked old! https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/16/books/review/poison-squad-deborah-blum.html This Saturday they have a gorgeous art opening at Elmer’s --- that I can't show you a picture of because these stupid-ass Mail Chimps decide what "My files" are instead of letting ME decide what they are! They have chosen 200 photos that I can upload - none of them are what I want to upload, stupid-ass, fucking "technology" that makes all the rules for you because they think they are SO fucking clever. See? Y'all Millennials? You keep saying you got no problem with technology running your lives? WATCH! You will have no control whatsoever. It'll all be Elon Musk, Google and Apple and what they think you should be doing. You think I'm kidding? You're sliding right into it and you don't even care. How about that? Do I sound old now? Here's the info (stupid-ass technology-hoarding monkey-ass monkeys! - Not you, them!) At Elmer's this Saturday from 2 to 4 pm they have a joint art opening with works by Jim Murphy and Macalister Sloan Anderson. Mac is only 17 but BOY is he good! And Jim is older - and one of Mac's art instructors and MAN is he even better! But it's a gorgeous show and I wish you could see the picture I wanted to upload, but I can't. So now you just have to go to the show. If you'd like these essays to jump into your inbox, you can! Sign up here!
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