The Author Guy Blog by Larry B. Gildersleeve

 5th July 2024

Hello out there,

Welcome back. Hard to believe it’s already July. The first half of the year has, for me, flown by.

I heard or read that as we age in the last one-third (after 60) of our lives, the days get longer and

the days get shorter. As do the years … or so it seems.

Today I received a reckoning email from my son (age 45) in which he shared realities about my

grandchildren (girl 14, boy 12) and their peers regarding the generational digital divide. Their school in

one of the most prosperous cities in our fair land conducts seminars on how to address a snail mail letter,

and most children their age see no point in opening anything USPS brings to them regardless of the

sender. That doesn’t bode well for the struggling USPS, or so it seems.

To quote my son (don’t think he’ll mind): “Put it up there with cursive, cash, textbooks, and a whole slew

of things that are dead to them in the digital age.” Well, that explains why teenagers working at some fast

food restaurants struggle with the simplest change-making transactions. And I’ve long ago noted the

decline of cursive in younger generations, and now, it appears, it may have gone away for good. Or so it

seems.

One sure way to know for certain that I’m well into that last one-third of trips around the sun is that I just

used the term “younger generation” in a plaintive manner. Or so it seems.

Until next week … Vaya con Dios

Larry B. Gildersleeve