Old age is going to get the best of me, or my driving

Old age is just killing me but the problem is – I still like to think of myself as young and an excellent driver. I just got back from the mid-winter Texas Press Convention in San Marcos and that’s a long way to drive for a 61-year-old woman by herself who doesn’t see as well as she used to. I tell the sta , don’t text me because I’m not going to read it and I’m not that interested in knowing what a text says while I’m driving. And I can’t gure out how to get my texts singled out from my Facebook posts so my phone is dinging all the time. I decided at the last minute to travel to Austin Wednesday a ernoon, but I needed to get there by dark because I don’t see well at night. I had a budget meeting with one of my bossesWednesday morning who was kind enough to let me go ahead and get the heck out of town. I dashed out the door at 12:06 from the o ce, went home; threw my stu in the car and completely skipped Rotary. And then I found out I was scheduled to have the program at Rotary. at is such a Vernon Rowe thing.

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