Random Thoughts: Look forward to new book reviews
Santa was very good to me. I would have thought he would have crossed me off the list. After all, shouldn't there be a time limit?
I received several books, so you'll be hearing about them. Several weeks ago I read Walter Cronkite's "A Reporter's Life," published in 1996. It was interesting to me because our lives covered the same history. He spoke of so many people and events that brought back memories to me.
Here is a good proverb: "A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it." You know the old story about the man who worked hard to become a rich man. He endured much stress and worry as he strived. Someone asked him what he was going to do when he retired. He answered, "I'm going back home and sit on a river bank with a fishing pole in my hands." He could have done that in the first place.
I've heard people giving advice to those who are thinking of retiring. They say "don't ever retire." Of course, women can never retire (that's why they live longer than men). Someone has to clean, make beds, and cook meals. Even if she can hire it done, she has to supervise. There just ain't no justice.
Even if we accumulate enough to support us in our old age, we have to care for and watch the amount and when we think we are all set, a new tax or rules are changed.
I'd get over it and try to be positive.
Hurrah! For the new year 2006!
— NORMA HANNAFORD
