Gary Larkin:  

Hello fellow AARP members!!!!!! How's life in da hood???--Sorry; I am a special ed teacher in Los Angeles, working with a class full of "gangstas", so sometimes I get carried away!!!! I also am psychotherapist in a drug rehab, so I see it all!!!!How did we get so old???? Well, as they say on the tee-shirt, "Poo-Poo Occurs!!! I am married, and Debbie and I are celebrating our 33rd anniversary on the 25th of May. When marriage was invented, and the phrase, "Till Death Do Us Part" was decided upon, people only lived untill they were 35!!!!! Gave it a whole different meaning. There should be a doo-over!!!!--Just kidding; we are very happy. My son, Hunter, is almost 21. He is autistic, but very high functioning; just a lttle odd, but so is his old man! We are very active in the autism community here in LA, and I provide a "sound therapy" for autistic people to lessen their sound sensitivity. My daughter, Dana , is 18 on the 26th of May,and is going to UCLA in the fall as a junior; she graduated HS at 16, and went to community college for 2 years. She and her brother are adopted from Korea; nobody from my loins would be that smart. I still play guitar, sing and write, but no more performing--too much grey hair! I need a 12 step program for E-Bay!!!! I just can't stop buying guitars! It's a sickness. I came to LA in 1978 to be John Lennon, but nobody cared!!! The next day it was announced that Elvis died, falling off the toilet with a face full of cocaine, I thought that was a sign, but no dice!!!Like a friend so wisley said to me, "maybe the cosmos had enough songwriters and needed a special ed teacher. " I prefer believing that, rather that I might have sucked at it. Dealing with that will pay for my shrink's pool, if you get my drift! My health is good; I had an angioplasty in 2004; no heart attack; they just discovered blockage. I went to the hospital reporting discomfort in my chest, and they hooked me up to Norad, and found the blockage, and then blasted it out!!!! All is well! Exercise is not my best freind, bu...Expand for more