Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for April 06, 2016

She thinks it’s confusing now (14)? Wait until 54, That will make her menoPAUSE.

And she still needs to find out that work is as bad as school; plus you don’t get recess or summer vacation.

Unless you work for the school, then you get every holiday, break, and yes, snow day off and paid.Summers aren’t paid though, and you get to see teenagers haven’t changed much in 36 years. Just the age when they expose themselves to porn and drugs.Yesterday, I heard the “N-word” 814 times!This was out of the mouths of your children not the awful music they listen to.That I could do without…

I’m 72 and cant forget her at 14…You never get over it…Just enjoy the memories…

I remember a similarly themed underground comic from the 1970’s/80’s. Heroine was named ‘Polly Morpheus’ or something similar…

And of course, there are the days when I wonder why I wanted to be an adult so da** bad!

These are the good old days.

I prefer 25.You’re basically at your most fit.You’ve completed most or all of your formal schooling.You’ve finally learned that you don’t know it all.And you should be earning a decent wage.

OMG, i’m 64.

“those were the days my friend, we thought they’d never end”

Something is wrong….She lost her pupils.

I love Danae, of course. But Kate is much closer to my taste in people. I sure hope Wiley does this well! Can not wait. lol!

I’m 76. I grew up in rural Arkansas and Texas. I had a lot of the good ol’ days. I wouldn’t go back even if I could.Cars that lasted only 50,000 miles and worn out.Water from wells and cisterns that was often contaminated.Food contaminated and adulterated with god knows what.Children as young as 4 years old working. Adult men could marry 10 year old girls. One southern state finally removed that law in 1960,Women couldn’t enter into a legal contract in most states. Telephone service was pay phones and party lines.No government social services. I knew a man who starved to death. No medical care if you didn’t have money or insurance.I worked with a young man whose baby died in his Mother’s arms while they were driving from hospital to hospital. They didn’t have insurance and no money.Schools went from the September 1 to May 31. We got out of school for Thanksgiving 2 days. Christmas from half day on Christmas eve to January 2, Easter 2 days and that was it. I could write a book instead of this rant.

@Dr_Zin. There’s a Charlie Daniels song which goes: “If I could have just one wish, I’d like another try at 25, or was it 26?”

I’d start over at 34 – that’s how old I was when Hubby and I got married. He still treats me as if I am 34, and I’m twice that and then some.

Like Kate, very hard to know what to say. A glimpse into the day after tomorrow is a lot for even her to grasp. Who is this guy anyway? So will havta wait until . . .

Each following 10 year period gets shorter and shorter.

13 is that yo-yo age for girls. When they are wildly oscillating between the ages of 10 and 20. Scary times for a dad.

white heron, yup. Reminds me of the Rogert Hunter line…“Heard Joe Farmer say, ‘scuse me please,Those were the days, but so are these…”….People forget that, sometimes…………Just and Peaceful,….That’s true, and it hit’s the new teachers the hardest….. Miserable pay for the first few years, and out of that, you have to pay for a Master’s Degree, because you’ll never make any money without it. But you’ll usually do it by going into debt up to your ears…After ten or fifteen years, though, if you keep taking classes…It’s still a lot more work than you’d think, but at least you finally have some money to spend….You’ve paid off your student loan, up higher on the pay scale…Taking vacations, going out to dinner…..and then …Oops babies!…. Look, there are a lot worse jobs than teaching, but there are none more difficult… I come from a family of teachers…(It’s a disease that runs in a family, I think..)….They always told me, You’ll never get rich, but you’ll do OK. And you’ll have the comfort of knowing you did your part, you tried to improve society…… You jumped in the arena and fought on the side of knowledge, insight and enlightenment… And you can honestly say you didn’t do it for the money….

A_Dream4u Snow days are made up at what otherwise would be summer vacation and generally when teachers’ mandatory courses are registering at the nearest teachers college – which they must pay for. Some cushy job, slacker!

I bet the old lady is Kate at 74!

Age is simply mind over matter…. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter !

here in northern Calif. (for me) the 50s was like Leave it to Beaver with a little Ozzie and Harriet mixed in. I would not want to be a kid here now!

Damn skinny for fourteen. She bulimic or something?

Anybody else getting the feeling that the old woman is also a future Kate?

:D sounds like you still have a mind and a sense of humor too ;)

so when does she run into her sister (duck!)

You sound a lot like a scientist; always nibbling away at the bleeding edges of The Known Universe. Every question asked (with Feynman’s Faith; careful questions Will get Honest Answers from the Universe), the answer will lead you to even more questions! But that’s how we get a little larger lighted area into the Big Dark.