This is one to clip out and put on the refrigerator until it turns yellow with age (except my wife ate sole meuniere at a wonderful little restaurant on the Oise River many years ago, got food poisoning, and spent three days in our Paris hotel ‘calling huey on the big white phone’). But the sentiment is perfect!
This is a classic! I first read ‘To Build a Fire’ in 10th grade and immediately got addicted to Jack London. Last year, I listened to an audio collection including ‘Fire’ while on a lengthy road trip, and was immediately transported to the Yukon. JJ deserves a Pulitzer Prize for this one.
Arlo hit the nail on the head: we stress to our children they shouldn’t judge themselves or others against some arbitrary standard of beauty. Yet, as adults, we don’t want to accept the changes in our own bodies. Great, timeless, classic strip!
I was in junior high at a school near Miami. A year earlier, we had gone through the Cuban Missile Crisis with convoys of SAMs and troop carriers across south Florida. It was Spanish class and our teacher was a wonderful older man, a retired USAF colonel (and Korean War ace, though we would not find out that fact until his death decades later) and Puerto Rican native who had ‘re-purposed’ himself as a teacher of recalcitrant middle school students. The school’s PA system came on in the middle of class with the unfolding news. Col. Ramirez’s teacher training had not prepared him for what to do in such a circumstance. He fell back on his military training and attempted to continue the class. I was the one who told him the PA’s broadcast was what more important at that moment. The day is seared into memory.
This is one to clip out and put on the refrigerator until it turns yellow with age (except my wife ate sole meuniere at a wonderful little restaurant on the Oise River many years ago, got food poisoning, and spent three days in our Paris hotel ‘calling huey on the big white phone’). But the sentiment is perfect!