It’s the challenge of a new Internet friend, blogging impresario Liz Strauss, that I take a super-big aspect of my life and summarize it, hopefully in a poetic way, into exactly 25 words. I hope my attempt gets in under the wire. Here goes:
I’ve spent my first half-century
in a waiting room reading a magazine article
about the kind of life others have,
that I deserve too.
