WordWranglers

George Bernard Shaw said,  “You don’t stop laughing when you grow old, you grow old when you stop laughing.” I'm not sure if he said it first, but his name was the first one to come up when I looked. My first thought was that I don't like two independent clauses being separated by a comma. My second one was who did I think I was, arguing with George Bernard Shaw about grammar? I talk way too much about growing old. I complain and I whine and I forget things and my skin, like that of the wicked witch in Wizard of Oz is melting at an alarming rate. But mostly I laugh. With my kids, with the guy in the other recliner, while I'm writing, with friends. I've just started a new book, working title Shades of Green . The heroine is younger than my usual--thirty-three. She's never been married, doesn't have kids, and is a terrible disappointment to her mother. She's a pastor in a little community church, and she is so funny. Instead of the solemnity one might expect i