ABOUT ... MEANDERING NOSTALGIA TO GET YOU STARTED

I write from the vantage point of an octogenarian whose reminiscences reach from high school graduaion in 1941 to breakfast this morning. Humor ranges from the tongue-in-cheek ("We practiced safe sex long before we started high-school; it was only later that we realized that almost anything is safe if you do it by yourself") to the mildly off color ("If everyone knew what I know, a lot more 70-
year-old women would be having sex."). More serious subjects cover military service during World War II (aircraft mechanic/flight engineer for women pilots towing targets for gunnery students), acerbic observations about the "Greatest Generation," near starvation in law school, a ratiree's manifesto, smoking and corporal punishment.