Progress

Now don’t get me wrong, I like progress--if I can understand it. And I can’t understand this dotty e-com world. I can’t think of a thing I would rather buy sight unseen on a computer, for delivery someday, than buy all at once in a store--and in a store I don’t have to give my financial and personal history, especially when I pay with that new time-saving invention, cash.

I know this makes me an object of fun, if not scorn, in the eyes of young people, who howl with glee when I confess that I also use a typewriter and the U.S. mail when I have something important to say, like this letter. They twitter and smile and explain how their dot-coms and their e-mails and their super-duper jet printers save them gobs and gobs of time.

I think I’ll stick with the old brand of progress.

WILLARD OLNEY

Hesperia