Can you imagine.... being 80 years old, buying a computer, learning how to use it, in another language. Setting up email accounts. Learning instant messaging. And then going on an Italian Computer Message Board??

I find this all fascinating. Especially when the older people around my area (75 or so) just sit on the porch and want their kids and grandkids to just come and sit with them. They won't go off their porch.

And I have an 80 year old gentlemen who lives downstairs who gets dressed up every day, goes out shopping with his wife (they just returned from a month in Italy), and now he is corresponding with Italy.

I just think this is cool.

mel