I’m too old to care about internet frogs. I think I’ve reached the stage, too, where new internet tools and social media forums baffle me, like they seem to baffle a lot of senior citizens. It’s not that I can’t keep up so much as I no longer want to. I’ve gone from cutting edge to a dinosaur in eleven years.
I guess I’ll have to pick up my game if I want to make a living writing on the internet, so I’ll look around for my second wind. Still, the joy seems to have gone out of this in a lot of ways, probably driven by how relentlessly broken our political system has become. It really seemed, for a while, like we’d helped turn things around. It doesn’t feel that way anymore.
It feels like I can see the high-water mark behind us. And the tide has rolled back.