Gina, You rock!!! Wanna be my Grandma? I'd love to have a Neo-pagan chaplain, Internet surfing, country living, recycling, young at heart Nana... I'm in awe. Daria
On 12/11/06, gina_ellis_ca <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
--- In [email protected], "Ellen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Here is 1 ad in the Boston Globe I make a point of reading, even > though I hardly ever go to the store (can't really get there without a > car) > > http://www.building19.com/WEEKSAD.htm > > BTW you are far more computer literate than most 70+ year olds I know > including my parents. Jeez you're even using acronyms I've never > heard of! Hey, I'd go to the store too...but can't really get there without a plane. Maybe not your parents, but the biggest growing demographic of people diving into the internet (I read somewhere) is my contemporaries. Hey, the kids never call and it's hard to get out any more. (Neither true in my case, but the time's a-comin'.) My daughter (who does call a lot) (cuz she lives next door and we live in the country and she doesn't drive) got into the internet a lot the last few years, when she was pretty much invalided by a back problem, and found not so much old people but lots of people like her who are pretty housebound. Great invention for them. And I'm reminded that in my work (some of it paid! the federal prison part) as a chaplain (alternative religion - neo-Pagan) I recently came across somebody in a Retirement Home who's 80, who's just getting into Wicca, taking music lessons, learning Spanish, and who does wonderful paintings by computer (I have no clue as to how one does that).... and all this after having recovered from a stroke. (It would be inspirational, if it weren't daunting...) Yahoo! Groups Links
