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 Marvin Pincus understands that times change, and
he’s changed a lot, too. He’s a lot older now, of course, and it
gives him more time to consider things, like snowboarding. There he
was, the other day up on Parker’s Ridge, our
fairly-close-to-being-local ski slope, resting his arms on the
antique wooden ski poles he’s used since the Hoover Administration.
And down the hill came young people, swooping and swooshing on
snowboards and it got ol’ Marvin shaking his head.
“Back when I was young,” he said, “we had to work at this. You had
to have skiing lessons, of course. Then you had to buy the right
equipment and the right wax. Oh yes, the wax. You had to know just
what kind of wax to use for the current temperature and what kind of
snow you had. Then you practiced learning to stop and turn. For some
strange reason, we thought it was important to be able to turn on
skis, and to stop.
“But now we have these snowboards. Near as I can tell, all you need
to get started in that sport is an idiot and a six pack.”
[Text from file received from
Slim Randles]
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Ol' Jimmy Dollar
is Slim Randles' first children's book. The book is for kids
K-3rd grades and is even better when parents read it with children.
Ol' Jimmy Dollar makes for sweet dreams and if you have a dog
even better. Available now on Amazon.
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