I would just like to take a moment to say....

Rapsberries to Keats "Ode on a Grecian Turn": "Beauty is youth, youth is beauty. That is all ye know on earth and all ye need to know." Hubris to be sure, but the youth of today would have us believe it.

Raspberries I say!

I wrote the above on the occasion of my older brother's birthday. Now that I've joined the legion of Over 40's, I would like to say for the record that Keats is a pansy.

I wish I knew everything now that I knew then.

Being 40 is gonna be an awesome time. I am older to be sure, but wiser and still able - still full of spit and vinegar - ok, so I hafta watch the heartburn now. And only one box of girl scout cookies in a sitting - ok. ok. ok. cholesterol, yea I know - two cookies then. One? Exercise?

Forty is gonna be awesome. You get to do things you've never done before - I'm not quite sure what those things are - but I get to do them.