Look Back and Spill - A Year's Interrogation

Questions for You and Me about 2023

1.  Are there any things that you did for the first time this past year?

• I broke my first bone— my fifth metacarpal in a bike accident in August. Many humbling disability lessons!

• Taught my first Zoom publishing and writing classes— loved them. “Mrs. Bright is Always Right.”

• First year on Medicare and Social Security — the year of 65.

• Started writing film reviews again for the Chron and the Book&Film Globe. That’s how my professional writing gigs started in the 80s, as a critic, and here I am again.

• Took Beginning German, learned a lot about English.

• Got rid of car and started walking around. So many secret alleys around here, I am thinking of making a shadow-alley Santa Cruz map.

© Jill Posener, Albany Bulb

2. Did you have any New Year's resolution and did you act upon them?

   1. Retire. And I did.

   2. Survive with little income. I did.

3. Did someone close to you give birth to a child?

   Yes. She was a virgin. He’s supposed to be really special.

4. Did someone close to you die?

Casey Sonnabend. Fawn Fitter. D…