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Hey, how ya doing?  I'm good here.  I'm living in my little apartment building and living small right at the moment.  I'm semi-retired or semi-self-employed, whatever you want to call it, after having been a bookkeeper and financial manager for oh, about 25 years.

My 88-year old mother and my 75-year old auntie live in the same apartment building with me.  I have some fun with them.  They're both such a trip!  We come from different eras, I think.  Different times.  Different time zones that are not hours but years and decades apart.  They just slay me, the way their minds work sometimes.

I come from Upstate New York.  I have to distinguish that from Downstate, which is New York City.  If I just say I come from New York, people think the big city.  It isn't.  It's a cozy predominantly Jewish suburb of a medium-sized upstate New York city.

Environment makes a difference in point of view.  Urban-suburban-rural.  I've been all three and would prefer to go back to rural, but I'm a little bit stuck here in suburbia right now.

The reason for the photo, which is Vincent Van Gogh's "The Red Vineyard" is because it's the only painting he sold in his lifetime and I consider it's an inspiration to any artistic endeavor.