Surveying the landscape of aging in post-postmodern America with compassion, wit and a liberal slant. Only intermittently mature.

Friday, April 1, 2011

Profit Is Their Most Important Product*


We filed our taxes early this year and now I regret it. If I'd let GE go first, I might have done the whole thing differently.

All my life I've been terrified to file late or make a mistake. Once upon a time, I started a business and had to consult an accountant who began to name all the deductions I could take: my car, of course; my office rent and furnishings and supplies; the part of my house that served as a second office; my employees. Wait, I didn't have any employees. So he told me to hire my kids. Who were thirteen and sixteen. In a solo psychotherapy practice. Righty-o, that was gonna work.