re: #81 allegro

I think because I didn’t reproduce I have no concept of age really. I never became a necessarily authoritarian mom so my grad students, those I was always closest to, were my equals in all but experience. They would be deferential at the beginning but soon got over it. LOL I lead the team but always saw it as that, a team.

When I taught some college classes, I was in my early 40s, and I felt SO much older than my students at first. But some of the kids were in a band, and I went to some of their shows (even wrote a couple of songs for them) and felt much closer in age.

I’m actually more comfortable around younger people than around most of my contemporaries. Although, most of my same-age friends are very political, as I am, and I think it keeps us younger and more “in the game.”