Once upon a time, there was a library that went out of business - kind of interesting because I didn’t know libraries could go out of business… Anyway, this one did, or at least it was closing and apparently had to sell all of its books. My mom had gone and bought a bunch of them because I think they were going for the rate of about 10 cents apiece.

Surprisingly (or perhaps not) I still have the ones that she gave me. There’s a book of O’Henry tales which I love and a few others including one entitled “What To Do”.

What To Do was a book written in the 50’s or 60’s aimed at young girls/women as they were beginning to become adults and so strove to answer their questions about how they should be have - or what to do, if you will - in a variety of situations.

For example, what to do if a boy asks you out. What to do if you are having some friends over for a tea party or such. What to do if you want to begin wearing make-up. And so it goes.

On Jo’s suggestion, my plan was to pull out the famous What To Do book and blog occasionally about some of the pearls of wisdom found within its covers. Sadly, when I went to look for it, I couldn’t find it. I have absolutely no clue where it is… I’ve scoured my bookshelves and the truck in the attic where I had placed some of the overflow of books I had after moving from New York, but alas.

I still have a few more places to search in the attic just in case it somehow make its way into some miscellaneous box as things are wont to do in the flurry of packing during a move.

So my quick entry here was to set the stage for what I hope will be a series of interesting peeks into a completely different school of thought - generationally speaking. Of course if I can’t find it, then this entry was simply to inform you of its exisitance and lament that it is no more.

Naturally I hope for the former.