No, I don’t look back. I look forward, a bit frantically, squinting as the light at the end of the tunnel grows brighter. Based on my parents’ deaths, I give myself until 85. I have so much to do: books to finish and write, wrongs to right, asses to kick, capitalism to defeat, dances to lead, and health to hold steady -- all hard to do as mortality closes in on me. Plus, I need hugs with friends in far countries. You tell me: Have I changed much since I was 22, sitting in a window frame, tripping on acid?
Katz, mazel tov! 40 more years please. We need spirits like yours here.
Posted by: Dr Susan Corso | 22 October 2022 at 08:17
Love that pic - always have. Just sent you an email card then opened this. Change? Whatever! Have a great day. Get busy on your list of things to accomplish tomorrow ho ho.
I thought 85 seemed reasonable for myself - but now that I'm gimping rather quickly towards 82, maybe add a couple of years more on, if possible - and if I keep my marbles. John is 83 tomorrow. Clara C was way younger yesterday. A lovely clutch of BD friends one day after another in October.
Posted by: Sue O'Sullvan | 22 October 2022 at 09:34
Happy Birthday, Katz!
Have a blast - continue to show us "younglings" (I'm 55!) how its done.
Much love n hugs
Posted by: Gema Gray | 22 October 2022 at 14:12
you haven't changed a bit!
Posted by: jaya | 22 October 2022 at 15:24
Lovely photo and you’re lovely now! Enjoy 75!
Posted by: Barbara Ridley | 22 October 2022 at 15:39
Beautiful photo, although I admit I was hoping for something more recent :-) Thank you for sharing.
- KC
Posted by: KC | 22 October 2022 at 18:05
Not sure what your plan for today is, but for my 75th birthday I celebrated with a family scavenger hunt in Boston.
We had a great time.
Suzanne
Posted by: Suzanne | 22 October 2022 at 20:46
Happy birthday Sue, nice pic
Posted by: Mike Azzara | 23 October 2022 at 02:15
Fabulous photo! That slender, acid-tripping, cutie is still in you, along with subsequent years of folly and wisdom. Stay mighty, sweetheart. We still need your strength & beauty.
Posted by: Sarah Forth | 23 October 2022 at 20:28
Have you changed since our freshman year as roomies at BU? Hmm… Yes and no.
Fundamentally no.
So...
What has:
Your diet. You now know how to eat pomegranates and lobster (the latter with dexterity and a modicum of grace)
Your aesthetics (you would never again buy those dreadful blue bedspreads and curtains that we had in our room)
Your world (it's expanded significantly from Highland Park in Pittsburgh)
What hasn't:
Your way with words (even your term papers were good).
Your dancing (though now more focused)
Your humor (our roommatedness might have been a nightmare otherwise)
Your tenacity (when we lived on Bay State Road, it was more like obsessiveness, but it's mutated into a more functional, productive form)
Your exceptional courage (you were always a fighter for the right reasons and causes)
Your loyalty (I kinda knew from the moment you entered our dorm room in your shirtwaist dress that we'd be friends forever. Plus our RAs thought we looked cute together)
Posted by: Abby Robinson | 23 October 2022 at 22:35
22 or 75, naked or clothed you are always 100% you , fabulous unique and gorgeous!
I realise next year I’ll be the age you were when I first met you, but what’s in a number 😀
Love ya
Nic xxx
Posted by: Nicola | 25 October 2022 at 11:06
love the photo of you. i canno rad andy of this. Print is way too small for my eyes
Posted by: Shella Parks | 21 November 2022 at 00:14