...Just a Minute...

by Jacqueline Sewall Golden

Edition 9

At My Age, Things I'm Positive I Won't Do:

•  Spend a winter in Moscow.
•  Drive a double diesel truck.
•  Snow-ski anywhere.
• Enjoy (or not) the Caribbean or the American South.
•  Get pregnant.
•  Relive menopause.
•  Meet someone I really, truly hate at first sight.
•  Be lonely or afraid at night.
•  Stop snoring.
•  Fly a commercial jet again, anywhere.
•  Be a commercial airline pilot.

Things I May Possibly Still Do:

• Visit the Antarctic.
• Take a lover.
• On a trip, drive over a thousand miles in one day.
• Learn to love something I really dislike now, like the desert.
• Try some foods I’ve never had before, like snails.
• Revisit Alaska for the third time.
• Take up flying in a small plane.
• Write a novel, best-selling or not.
• Meet any president of the U.S.
• Have a conversation with any celebrity and not come across as a giggling, grinning doofus.
• Be understood by my children.
• Drive a convertible with the top down and not worry about my hair.
• Have a household item that turns out to be worth a million dollars on the Antiques Roadshow (in Britain).

To Be Continued..