![]() ![]() ![]() A good buy, a lucky buy, and I've learned that not everyone can say this about his life. I suppose it has most resembled a blue-chip stock: fairly stable, more ups thanÄowns, and gradually trending upward over time. It has not been the rip-roaring spectacular I fancied it would be, but neither have I burrowed around with the gophers. Eighty years, I think sometimes, and despite my own acceptance of my age, it still amazes me that I haven't been warm since George Bush was president. Will never go away, a cold that has been eighty years in the making. It clicks and groans and spews hot air like a fairytale dragon, and still my body shivers with a cold that The thermostat in my room is set as high as it will go, and a smaller space heater sits directly behind me. I'm a sight this morning: two shirts, heavy pants, a scarf wrapped twice around my neck and tucked into a thick sweater knitted by my daughter The sun has come up and I am sitting by a window that is foggy with the breath of a life gone by. ![]() Who am I? And how, I wonder, will this story end? ![]()
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