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 restaur...