If you would write a autobiograhy of any stage of your like--childhood, teenage years or adulthood, What would you name

[debm55]

The book? Mine would be the adulthood--"The Best Years of My Life" How about you?

[SheltieLover]

1. What a long strange trip it's been.

[debm55]

8. Thank you very much, SheltieLover. Great title.

[MiHale]

2. Deja View; Not Again!...

[debm55]

9. HAHAHAH. Thank you very much, MIHale. I like it.

[JMCKUSICK]

3. "In Search Of Roots" My Life As A Tumbleweed

[debm55]

10. Thank you very much, John. Great title.

[CanonRay]

4. Awakening.

[debm55]

11. So true, CanonRay. Thank you for sharing.

[lark]

5. Life in the Fast Lane - sex drugs and rock n roll from my teen years through my late 30's.

[debm55]

12. Oh, lark. Thank you for sharing.

[anciano]

6. Trust Betrayed

[debm55]

13. Thank you, anciano. for sharing with us. Great title.

[rsdsharp]

7. End of last year and all of this -- Nine months of hell and counting.

Brother died of covid at the end of November. Hospitalized for kidney infection in January. The day after I got home Sheri’s mother died. I was responsible for arranging brother’s interment in Iowa — he lived in Arizona. My sister-in law has been sending tons of my brother’s stuff to me. (Would you like his 7th, 8th, 9th, 11th and 12th grade yearbooks. I don’t, either. How about penciled critiques on paper towels by students when he was TA — fifty years ago. Who saves this stuff? ).

Prostate procedure in June. (Two weeks of bloody urine and a little discomfort. Suuuure). Tuesday the clotting was so bad I could no longer urinate. To the ER for the second time in a month. Spent the night in ER. Clots kept clogging catheters (three —that’s fun). Three hour surgery yesterday to evacuate bladder clots. Now in hospital.

FUN!

Sorry for the rant, Deb.

[debm55]

14. I am sorry for the sadness you have gone through. My husband, Rich, had Malignant Cancer last June. Radiation, meds, etc

It is a long journey, Wish you well, rsdsharp, Please DU mail me if you want to talk to Rich about it. Love you, Deb.

[rsdsharp]

17. Thank you Deb. I don't have cancer. I had prostate reduction surgery.

I’ve been on Eliquis, which is a blood thinner. They think that caused bleeding, and urine in the bladder causes it to clot, which finally stopped me from peeing Monday afternoon.

[debm55]

18. I wish you well my friend. Rich had Maligiant Cancer of the Prostrate. He is still on Hormones that he hates. Best of

luck my friend.

[rsdsharp]

19. Thank you so much. You're a DU Treasure!

[Wicked Blue]

15. LSD and Me - the Early 70s

[debm55]

16. Thank you very much Wicked Blue. I hope that is behind you now.

[Wicked Blue]

34. Absolutely in the past

but once in a long while I get groovy flashbacks

[debm55]

36. Excellent.

[ProfessorGAC]

20. "Jack Of All Trades..."

I'd leave off the second half & let the reader decide for themselves how to finish the phrase.

[debm55]

24. HAHAHAHHAHHA. Thank you very much, ProfessorGAC, You are excellent at a lot of things.

[Sneederbunk]

21. The Loyal Ingrate.

[debm55]

25. Thank you very much, Sneederbuck. I will look for it at the book store when you are finished writing.

[justaprogressive]

22. Hearts' Desire

The Road Not Taken ~ Robert Frost

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

We both followed our heart's desire

[debm55]

28. Thank you, I love that poem., justaprogessive.

[Ziggysmom]

23. Trust no one!

I was way too naive when younger. Now in my 60s the title would be, I don’t give a shit what people think about me!

[debm55]

29. Ziggysmom, I can't wait until your bood comes out. Thank you.

[FalloutShelter]

26. Driven to Abstraction

My life in the arts from middle school on.
Insta @susanzoondevlin

[debm55]

31. HAHAHAHHAH, That's a great one, FalloutShelter.

[markodochartaigh]

27. "It Gets Better"

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[debm55]

32. Thank you very much, markodochartaigh. It does get better, doesn't it.?

[markodochartaigh]

42. It certainly can get better.

It doesn't get better for everyone, but even when there is no reason for hope, unexpected events can occur which make life better. And the more that we all pull together, the more things will get better for the most people.

[Bok_Tukalo]

30. "I Only Cry if the Dog Dies"

[debm55]

33. Thank you, Bok_Tukalo. for your touching book.

[cloudbase]

35. "This Ain't No Shit"

All the best stories begin with those words.

[debm55]

38. HAHAHAHHHAHHAH. Let us know when you get published, cloudbase.

[tonkatoy8888]

37. The Rockhead Files

Vol II-Ages 15-25

[debm55]

39. HAHAHAHAHAH. I'll be looking for it tonkatoy8888.

[Jilly_in_VA]

40. How I Got My FBI File

The story of my early 20s, 1966-1970

[debm55]

41. Thank you, Jilly_in_VA. I love mysteries.

[Jilly_in_VA]

43. The sequel to that would have to be

Journal of a Hippie Mom, 1970-1984. After that I went to nursing school and became respectable!

[debm55]

44. Oh you told me the ending, Jilly_in_VA,

[Talitha]

45. "Needs Adult Supervision"

Sure am glad all my stupid stuff was done pre-internet!

[debm55]

46. Hahahaha. Aren't we all. Thank you,Talitha.