Milestone Post

This is my 1600th post and well... I just did the math: At the rate I have slowed down to, it will take me ten whole years to get to 2,000. Would it be worth it to reach for that goal? I still can't tell. All my life I have suffered from an odd affliction in that once I even start thinking about achieving some crazy goal or doing some wildly ambitious project, I almost literally can't NOT begin upon it. Yet milestones like this one do get a body thinking.This coming October I will have completed 35 years of weekly column-writing. Shouldn't I stop , and have pity on those poor readers who might appreciate a fresher voice? I started in 1980 for God's sake when we didn't even have faxing!Back then I looked like this. (I'm the already-haggard looking brunette making the sad-cow face on the right, not my sister-in-law, the blonde beauty facing the camera.)The blog of course is more recent. The blog I started in the fall of 2007 but by mid-2008 I had decided I had to write every day. Every day! What tripe appeared under my name! I wrote from the heart a lot but in many posts I was also just appealing to popular culture, which anyone can do God knows, God knows. Search on my site for the word 'underpants' and you'll see.)Now after all this time I look like this, dye-job and all. ( I know I know. I've discovered minimizer foundationwear since this picture from last September.) Sigh. At least I'm smiling this time.Smilin' on the outside anyway.And it's not that I'm cryin' on the inside but I'll confess that I have lost the old merry trait  that made me think absolutely everything was funny, a trait that got me in a world of trouble with my teachers all along the way.So it's my 1600th post and my 1800th column that I've been working on this morning. I love to write still but I love a lot of other things now too, so how it will all play out I don't yet know. A woman from a church group just wrote me to see if I still do public talks. I  haven't written her back yet but I do think I'm done with public talks. Anyway, stay tuned if you care to.  Now let's all go out and sniff some of that downy spring air !