As a matter of fact, Mr Butts, people usually guess my age at 5-10 years younger than I really am. No kidding. If I bothered to color out my gray hairs any more, they'd probably still think I was 10-15 younger.

At the risk of sounding conceited, I'll confide that the reason I stopped coloring out my gray hairs a couple years ago was so that the younger men (say under 25) would finally leave me alone. Having raised 3 sons of my own, I find them about stimulating as untrained semi-weaned puppies. Leaving my gray hairs "as is" works quite well to quell their interest, most of the time. It's been quite the relief.

How do you know how my hair and skin smells? Gotta cyber-nose or something?   The smell of smoke wears off in about 5 minutes if you smoke in the open air. Wash your hands with a nice-smelling soap and pop a breath mint in your mouth, and presto! No more smell.

In all honesty, I've had private music students I've taught for years who never knew I smoked, and were just plain shocked to find out (they happen by me in the park or on the nature trails sometimes).

If I smell so vile, how could they not have known?

daylia