The Writer's Life 11/24 - Rookie

Back in the day, early 1960's, I used to play softball after school at P.S. 101. I was the youngest kid, so Mr. Kaufman, who ran the show, called me The Rookie, and he continued calling me that for years. I loved it. I just read about another rookie at Yahoo Sports, LPGA's Lydia Ko, 17, who earned $500,000 for winning the weekend's stop on the ladies' tour. She also won a million dollar bonus. Ko, a New Zealander, had quite a season, highlighted by 14 top ten finishes and three wins. She is the first rookie to earn two million dollars. While an amateur, her mom would give her ten bucks for each stroke she finished under par. Kudos, young lady. Here's a pic:

This morning at the deli section of Stop n Shop I bought onion rings and mozzarella sticks. All day long I looked forward to dinner. Now I feel the makings of a belly bomb. We must pay for our sins.

Mother Nature cooperated beautifully today, the rain ceasing before eleven, the temperature mild. The floating book shop was open for a full session, three-and-a-half hours. Unfortunately, I sold only one book, Hillary's latest pseudo-effort, Hard Choices, which tanked. Scanning the sparse content, I was not surprised. It seems nothing more than a cynical money scheme. And the cover, her bloated face in profile, was a colossal marketing blunder. Anyway, my thanks to the woman who bought it, and to the one who donated a book in Russian, and the Fed-Ex Guy, who donated three books, two winners and a loser, an Oscar Pistorius memoir that preceded his shooting his lover to death. I left it in the lobby of our building, the same as I did with a pre-scandal Lance Armstrong bio.

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