Welcome @newexperience, and thank you for sharing this within the FreeSpeech Community as well. Link: https://steemit.com/trending/hive-168088.

I'm @AngryMan (The founder of the Community) It may be a bit more difficult for you to discover and understand all the facets of Steemit now that the 'split' has happened sending many members to @Hive - https://hive.io/@angryman, but do not dismay, we're 'all' a bit confused right now...You can participate on Hive as well as Steemit should you wish to.

I enjoyed reading your short story about the past...I'm (like you) in my 7th decade too :>)