Want to know what makes me feel old? I’ll tell you... Drew Barrymore, and For Better or For Worse, the comic strip. Celebrating another birthday every year and seeing my daughter growing into a lovely young teen hasn’t done it quite as those two.

Imagine going to the movies twenty years ago and seeing E.T. There she is, cute little Drew Barrymore making us laugh when she screams upon seeing ET. Fast forward a few years and there she is, getting married in The Wedding Singer! Hold on now!!! Not that much time has passed, has it? Even though I have a thirteen year old daughter?

I’ve been reading the comics since I was a little girl. Peanuts, Blondie, Family Circus, etc. The characters are the same ages now as when I was reading them as a girl. But along comes Lynn Johnston and her strip, For Better or For Worse. I first started reading it when the Patterson’s children, Michael and Elizabeth, were small kids. Now Elizabeth is in college and Michael is a father! Sigh!

Today, I share my love of comics with my daughter and one day she will remember that April Patterson and she are only ten months apart. She’ll probably realize how time has passed when April is having a child of her own. Drew Barrymore will shock her in the same way my generation is shocked that the Von Trapp children are in their sixties today!

I’m really not complaining. I have had a great life so far and am blessed with a loving family. My daughter keeps me feeling young and young at heart. And hey, I still enjoy reading the comics!

"Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been."
~ Mark Twain