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When I was setting up my virtual book tour, I looked at a lot of senior citizen sites. That’s how I found headrambles.com with Grandad. It’s also how I found something called GoingLikeSixty. The header of the blog has a picture of some folks white-water rafting, then a picture of a truck? with flames behind it, then a text panel which reads, “When I hit sixty, I thought I had patience. Turns out I just didn’t give a crap.”

I had no idea what the connection was between the 2 pictures and the text. But I totally agreed with the “Turns out I just don’t give a crap” sentiment. I was weary of looking for hosts for the tour and with one serendipitous email I established contact with owner of the site.

“Heck, yes!” He would be happy to have me and promptly sent off these questions.

Nope, hang on. I’m gonna make you guess at one of them. Here’s some hints:

• 1) it involves headgear
• 2) think 1956-1964 TV show
• 3) I could win a washer and dryer.

Did you guess it? Here’s the questions (#5 was the one I was hinting at):

1. 1. Other than your writing, what do people compliment you on?
2. 2. What books are your guilty pleasure?
3. 3. What is your most painful high school memory?
4. 4. Writing is hard, why are you going like sixty?
5. 5. If you were Queen for a day, what would you do? (remember Queens have no real power)

If you go to the site, you’ll see that I answered these somewhat bizarre questions — but you have to play a game of associating the answers to the questions!

The fellow who owns the GoingLikeSixty site has a number of links to senior sites and his anecdotes are unfailingly funny and poignant. I invite you to check out more than just my interview. On the other hand, here’s what he looks like - it will give you an indication of what sorts of things you might find.

There was some good-natured bantering about what he had asked. A good example is our most recent exchange. I asked if he was going to post picture of Queen for a Day, since he uses a lot of gimmicky-stuff on his site.

He sent back this photo:

I found my own photo from the tv show and tied into a wonderful personal essay about a fellow whose mother was on the show.