My parents were writers. They traded in their IBM selctric typwriter as soon as the first Apple word processor came out.

IT was amazingly crude compared to today but they loved it.

My mom recieved something like 1/3000th of an oil well estate in 1977 that belonged to her mother's first husband which amounted to 14K. She was thrilled to have a bit of money for the first time that was entirely hers. IT was about that time she bought her first shares in anything.


All of my mother and father's unpublished manuscripts and books were destroyed by the caretaker who thought she could claim my father's entire estate. She complained about how many garbage bags it took to throw away all those papers.