Getting ready for Christmas -- again

Saturday, December 6, 2008

For the last two or three years, Christmas Day has kind of snuck up on me. Ever since retiring early, at age 62, because of severe and abiding health problems, I've avoided all long-range projects and activities that need to get finished by a certain date. Heck, how do I know that on the future day when I'm scheduled to read an essay or critique a poem in Warrensburg, I won't be on my back undergoing surgery in Kansas City? It's happened before, and it plays hell with everybody's schedule. I miss all the activity, all the involvement in other people's lives.

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