Hi Ken!!!
Yes, I’m still around….long long long time no write!!! I’m SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO pleased to see ASK KEN on the "tinternet" in a new vamped up form……..Long may you and your problem pages live. You’ve helped me in the past and I can see you are still helping people…so I’ll just hop off and let you carry on!! Lovely reading ya Ken!!!
The Universal Bunny xxxx
Dearest U-B,
Growing up I was always baffled that parents just didn’t understand what it was like to be kids. I mean, everyone was a child at one point. Couldn’t they dredge up some vague notion of what the world was like through my wide eyes? Alas, they did rarely. And like many kids, I swore I’d never do the same when I was an adult.
Now I have a hard time conjuring up details of the heydays of Ask Ken!, the heady 90’s: the days of Bill Clinton, fiscal excess, this new thing called the internet, lunch nookie on the top of an Apple Computer carpark. I suppose there’s good reason why it’s all just a purple haze.
My life has changed so much since then: at one time I railed against The Man; now I am The Man. I used to have hours to ponder others personal and domestic quandaries; now I wallow in my own with nary a spare moment for myself each day. And most importantly, I traded my five leafed good bud for a sweet three year old good bud and his so-sweet-it-makes-your-teeth-hurt little sis. But as fondly as I look back on the early days of Ask Ken! and even miss it, I wouldn’t trade what I’ve got now. My random nattering is not even a footnote on the internet and will some day slip into an oblivion when I finally let the Ask Ken! domain expire and my backups are absent-mindedly erased. The time I put into my children, however, leaves a legacy that lasts generations.
And, for the record, now that I have my own kids, I do, in fact, remember what it was like to see the world from their perspective. On some days it makes raising them easier and on others, much, much harder.
Ken!