Wife Vicki's first marathon. |
Since you will never speak up without being tortured or enticed, I’ll make it a writing contest! (Note the exclamation point.)
This is a contest for you to describe your personal best in or at a topic of your choice. And “you” can be young or old, retired or not. (Most of the blog’s readers are far from retired.)
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Or you might reach deeper into your bag of bests. Suppose you were my former colleague, Jim, who never bothered to learn touch typing. You might describe the ecstasy of reaching 20 words per minute keyboarding with only two index fingers.
Symbols of our son Noah’s personal best in grade school. |
I think the following covers everything you’ll need to know:
-Topics: Describe any personal best but keep it G or PG rated.
-Length of Write up: No more than 500 words, all or most in English.
-Due Date: Monday, 1 July 2013
-To Submit: Include your write up in the body text of an email to: RetiredNW@gmail.com No attachments; attachments will not be opened.
-Photos: It would be nice if you had one or more digital photos ready should your write up be selected, but there’s no need to include any with your submission.
-Contestants: Anyone, retired or not retired, may enter, except a member of my immediate family, who would never enter anyway.
-Judges: I haven’t gotten that far yet.
If the judges throw up their hands at the difficulty of choosing a winner, more than one winner might be selected, especially if the top submissions are in different categories (e.g., Frisbee toss and SAT scores).
If there are no submissions, I will be inconsolable.
If there are no worthy submissions…nah, not possible.
Oh, almost forgot:
-Prize: Publication here on the Retired--Now What? Blog, using your true or pen name for copyright.
I hope you’ll jump at this opportunity for fame. Thanks for stopping by.
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