I like having this Internet connection; I like having a word processing program that just lets me go back and delete without an eraser; I like having a printer, no having to painstakingly type each word and use thin paper so the erasures would not show so much. I love this stuff – cable TV and DVD’s and digital camera pictures going on the computer. Ipods and digital recorders, cell phones – heck, I thought cordless phones were cool. It took me forever to realize I could actually walk away from the main phone base.

However, I sometimes think I would have liked to have lived in the old days – not the old, old days, but the ones where Rudy Vallee first crooned through his megaphone and everyone seemed so cheerful singing, The Stein Song. Sometimes I sit here with old songs coming out of itunes and visions of raccoon coats in my mind.