When I was young, I hated the song Summer Breeze by Seals and Croft.

When it came on the radio I’d switch the channel and turn the volume up- I suppose I was trying to drown out the sound of that lazy, meandering song from my head

I used to think that thin crust pizza was a rotten cheat, it wasn’t a meal it was pizza pan scrapings as far as I was concerned.

and leather gloves were tight, smelly and made the shape of my ugly hands even worse.

But as I have aged, I’ve come to embrace and enjoy the song ” Summer Breeze ” and thin crust pizza and sometimes I wear leather gloves because in my mind’s eye I can see me as a kid looking at me and saying… ” are  you weird now or what? “

I am weird, I say to her and proud of it.