An Optimist Turns 71

It could be the best year yet. Here’s why.

Jane Trombley
Nov 5 · 4 min read

I’ve always been an optimist as the curtain opens on the milestones of life. As a kid, I loved the start of the school year; the dusty smell of a building left vacant for 3 months, the potential that it would all be so wonderful.

Birthdays, holidays, high school, college, first job, second job, marriage, children. Check, check

Jane Trombley

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People change and so do profiles. Still a pan-curious traveler and chronicler of life in poetry and in prose. Wiser than before and hopefully a bit funnier.

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