Only Change Is Permanent
Size is a relative thing. So is temperature. So, too, are age and time. Do you realize this year's freshman class in college largely wasn't born when Y2K arrived? I have season tickets to University of Louisville women's basketball. Literally -- don't laugh -- I wear shirts older than anyone on the team. After I left the world of newspapers, I worked for six companies. None of them exist any more. I was 50 when the last of those companies was bought out and I lost my job. I tutored and worked as a communications consultant (until that consulting firm was bought out and moved to Denver), but -- literally again -- I was, in effect, retired, like it or not. I had a couple job interviews, but nothing came from them. That's about the time my drinking got out of hand. My life was changing in ways I hadn't planned. For the first time, I lost most of the control in my life. I saw that the only thing that never changes is change. Then I found security with ...