When a person lives into his eighth decade, writing for six of them, teaching for four of them, finding much to be amused about on this very very serious planet with all its ever-ongoing crises, is in his fiftieth year of wedded bliss, with four grown children having all married and bearing six children all told, having published eight books, and written over ten, plus a number of plays, hundreds and hundreds of poems, several dozen songs, drawn scores of cartoons for his books, etc., plays piano and accordion, he must have something interesting to say, wouldn't you think? Now, if you add to all that, more than a dash of eccentricity, you must conclude this is a person who just doesn't march to the beat of another drummer, but beats the drummer to the drum, tap-dancing on it until the drummer picks up the beat. See if it ain't so, that is, if your mind can handle it and smells humor when its cooking in the book.
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When a person lives into his eighth decade, writing for six of them, teaching for four of them, finding much to be amused about on this very very serious planet with all its ever-ongoing crises, is in his fiftieth year of wedded bliss, with four grown children having all married and bearing six children all told, having published eight books, and written over ten, plus a number of plays, hundreds and hundreds of poems, several dozen songs, drawn scores of cartoons for his books, etc., plays piano and accordion, he must have something interesting to say, wouldn't you think? Now, if you add to all that, more than a dash of eccentricity, you must conclude this is a person who just doesn't march to the beat of another drummer, but beats the drummer to the drum, tap-dancing on it until the drummer picks up the beat. See if it ain't so, that is, if your mind can handle it and smells humor when its cooking in the book.
