HATS - a rant for these times.
I could rant about many things at the moment, including the overuse of words such as 'unprecedented', 'challenging' and 'iconic', but enough people are doing that already, and I don't like talking politics online.
Jan Wayned Fields' photo which Rochelle posted on her blog https://rochellewisoff.com/2020/05/13/15-may-2020/hats/ for Friday Fictioneers this week didn't excite my fiction-writing head at all, possibly because it's already full of the book I am in the throes of editing.
So instead you've got this rant, which I know resonates with many of my friends in a similar situation. If you're young and free, enjoy it!
HATS
I have worn many different hats in my lifetime.Daughter, then student, followed by years as a bank clerk, in the days when we counted banknotes by hand, computers filled a room, and deposit ledgers weighed a ton.Happily I donned the various hats of a mother – cook, chauffeuse, nurse, gardener, teacher, decorator and seamstress until, eventually, I was a grandmother and retired.
But now they want to force me into another hat, with the words writ large – ELDERLY, VULNERABLE, PRISONER.
That hat won’t fit.
Jan Wayned Fields' photo which Rochelle posted on her blog https://rochellewisoff.com/2020/05/13/15-may-2020/hats/ for Friday Fictioneers this week didn't excite my fiction-writing head at all, possibly because it's already full of the book I am in the throes of editing.
So instead you've got this rant, which I know resonates with many of my friends in a similar situation. If you're young and free, enjoy it!
HATS
I have worn many different hats in my lifetime.Daughter, then student, followed by years as a bank clerk, in the days when we counted banknotes by hand, computers filled a room, and deposit ledgers weighed a ton.Happily I donned the various hats of a mother – cook, chauffeuse, nurse, gardener, teacher, decorator and seamstress until, eventually, I was a grandmother and retired.
But now they want to force me into another hat, with the words writ large – ELDERLY, VULNERABLE, PRISONER.
That hat won’t fit.
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