Riding in a Convertible with the Top Down

Today I'm knitting 

an editor's cap.

I set the goal of

120 posts. January 1st.

Then I would

pursue the tangled

web of thoughts

therein.

Let me tell you

it's quite a maze.

In a synchronistic happenstance 

a friend sent me a helpful

article about journals

written by writing teacher,

essayist, and poet Sheila Bender.

As chance would also have it

I have in my possession a

book titled: 

_Writing in a New Convertible

With the Top Down: A Unique

Guide for Writers_ by

Sheila Bender and Christi Killien

Twice in my life I have owned convertibles.

In my youth the Irish crones would

counsel don't be putting the top down:

not good to be in a draft... you'll

be getting the pneumonia.

These days the nay-sayer

 is the dermatologist.

"Careful of those sun rays...

use #40 sun screen, wear a

wide brimmed hat..."

So today as I don my editor's cap

I long for the freedom of the

convertible's carefree wind stream...

I need to add youth to my perspective

playfulness to my attitude, confidence

in my choices.

I think I'll put the cap aside

and make a game of this reading.

Wave as I breeze past in the

convertible with the top down.

For today I am a teen

out on the joy ride.

Now don't be tellin'!