New Substack Trial Run
Expect the Unexpected
Hello Everyone,
Welcome to my new Substack. I have been messing around trying to get it running for the past few hours and all I seem to be doing is going in circles. I’m going to bite the bullet and send out a trial run to you, my “inside circle”. I trust each of you will be tolerant as I work through the logistics of figuring out how this works.
For all I know, you might have already received several dozen “trial run” emails from me. If, per chance, your inbox has been exploding with my “trial runs”, I apologize. Somehow I find these new modes of communication make a whole lot more sense to the millennial generation than they do to me. Without fail a lot of instructions are left out because, there is an assumed element of common program proficiency. Proficiency that I, apparently, lack.
Ironically, I plan to use my Substack to share some of the more interesting things that I have learned about life, now that I am a retired woman of “a certain age”. I hadn’t considered adding the topic of “computer wrestling” to my long list of subjects, but no doubt it is one that many of us can relate to. Surely I am not the only boomer in North America who has to ask my grandchildren for technical advice?
Above all, I plan to have fun with my Substack. Just ask anyone who has known me all my life. I’ve never been one to have a shortage of words, nor opinions. I have lived a very full life with an abundance of diversified experiences. I’m sure I’ll be writing about everything from traveling around the world to dropping the first “f-bomb” my sweet little grandson ever heard (leading me to forevermore chastise myself as a Bad Grandma!)
Although I have much more to say, I am NOT sure this posting will even go anywhere, so I will close here. I hope you are willing to join my Substack List. If you would like to recommend my Substack to others, please do so. The more the better.
Expect the unexpected.
L
Well done, Lois. Earlier I wrote you a somewhat more effusive comment but managed to magically erase the whole thing with a single unintended “Enter” stroke. Sic semper the fate of boomers and technology. By the way, since I see you often refer to yourself as a “ person of a certain age” take heart in the knowledge that you’re not alone on here, as strictly speaking I am not a boomer, having been born 2 years before the usually accepted BEGINNING of that generation’s span. That brings to mind a referral you might enjoy. Tom Ryan is a thoughtful and occasionally poetic writer whose book, “Following Atticus” , you might well enjoy. He can be found on here at “Letters from New Hampshire….and beyond”
Charlie