Greg having given me permission to post, just in case he’s not able to find web access, it looks like the reading public will have an opportunity to read the Goose Master and Papa Goose at the same time. (Please do NOT comment on the alternative meanings of Goose Master) We 60 plus types are sometimes taken aback by the modern technological age. You have to remember that I was a practicing physician and a father before the first computers became available to the general public.  I had a pager, but all it did was alert me to the need to call my answering service to find out what was up. I had all the pay phones in Pasadena, Anchorage and Ukiah memorized. Cell phones, coffee makers you can set in advance, TV recorders you can set up to record every program in which you have any interest for the next month, and a multitude of other wonders just did not exist except in science fiction.

People who know me well will agree that one of my major characteristics is that I am a fanatic reader. I have been known to retreat from family gatherings to get a twenty minute reading fix, and to take paperbacks to the opera, ball games, etc.  (OK, I’m getting to the point)

Now I have the discovered the greatest thing since the credit card.  In two weeks I will be at a medical meeting for continuing education, and then taking a ten day vacation trip to attend a family wedding. Taking enough books for that long a trip would mean adding a great deal of weight to my luggage, EXCEPT I have discovered e-books.  I have FIVE novels in my PDA as we speak, and room for several more.  Does it matter that they are not all good novels?  No, some were free and I expect them to be pretty bad. But, free and fitting into my PDA is good. One of them is Vanity Fair. I haven’t read that since high school, but I’ll be Becky Sharp is still living up to her name.

I’m a pig in heaven, wallowing in the printed word, awash in prose. Neat! Cool!