Stone Soup by Jan Eliot

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  1. katdreams

    katdreams said, 17 days ago

    Can I be like her when I grow up? Pretty please, please, please?!

  2. lightenup

    lightenup said, 17 days ago

    I used to live next door to a lady just like Evie. I still want to be like her; she’s amazing.

  3. CarolinaGirls

    CarolinaGirls said, 17 days ago

    You get to start being hip again when the kids are gone!

  4. arsmall

    arsmall said, 17 days ago

    …you took the words right outta my mouth CarolinaGirls!

  5. Sheila

    Sheila said, 17 days ago

    At least she didn’t say ” I need to pimp my page”

  6. sugie63

    sugie63 said, 17 days ago

    Just like fine wines some of us “old” people get better with age;-)

  7. Macushlalondra

    MacushlalondraGenius_badge said, 17 days ago

    I hope to be like Evie when I get older too. So many older people will say they don’t want to get online or learn this or that new thing. I never want to stop learning new things.

  8. Wenthral

    Wenthral said, 17 days ago

    You are only as old as you want to be. If your constantly being told to act your own age or grow up your doing something right.
    I don’t even keep track of my age, just tell people I don’t do higher math when asked.

  9. kab2rb

    kab2rb said, 17 days ago

    My mom doesn’t keep up with times, but of course at 84 what difference does it make. She tries to live like she did 70 years ago.
    Me I try to stay with it but with new age electronics I am way behind.
    And where I work at pt they are making sure of that.

  10. Grace Loehr

    Grace Loehr said, 17 days ago

    We are not all old and ready for the trash heap once we pass 50.

  11. RinaFarina

    RinaFarina said, 17 days ago

    @lalondra, you took the words right out of my mouth.

    @wenthral, that’s a good answer. I’ll try to remember it: “I don’t do higher math.” Trouble is, I do do higher math, and everybody knows it. And when asked my age, I just tell them, as if it’s no big deal, which is isn’t and never has been. That’s what people find really shocking! They were hoping to make me defensive, and it didn’t work!

    When I was teaching at a city college, and my students asked me my age, I would tell them I was born two days before D-Day - not the anniversary, but D-Day itself. And if they didn’t know what D-Day was, they should ask their parents (by now, it would be their grandparents). Well, I never heard another word about it. People who lived thru WWII tended to remember it vividly…

  12. kattbailey

    kattbailey said, 17 days ago

    Dad’s a Biochemistry professor. He spends his life dealing with students who apparently can’t do lower math. Which may be why he’s comfortable with coming up with equations that he tells folks who ask. If you could remember what he said and calculate it you’d know…