Sunday, May 07, 2017
I Am SOL* When It Comes To Sol
I like a nice warm day - more and more as I get older, actually - but the sun and I are not best buddies. That's the subject of today's piece in the Boston Herald. I hope you'll head over there (or, better yet, buy an actual hard copy) and read what I have to say. By all means, feel free to leave your own comments concerning memories of sun-related stuff.
Thanks for reading!
Soon, with more better stuff.
*Shit Out of Luck, for those fortunate enough to have not run in the same obscene circles I have.
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Always felt sorry for the Irish kids who wore tee shirts in the ocean and that white zinc oxide stuff on their nose and ears. Most of my friends and I would roast in the sun with baby oil to speed the process. I would get one good burn (nothing like your second degree) would be tan two days later, and never needed sun screen the rest of the summer. I am way more careful these days.
Hopefully I won't get skin cancer.
I remember being surprised at work when my co-worker friend from Belize came back from vacation complaining about sunburn. He saw the look on my face and said "What, you think black doesn't burn?"
Your title did not make sense to me at first.
"I am shit out of luck when it comes to shit out of luck."
Then I realized it was very clever.
I used to never burn. I could be out in the sun all day and I would get very, very tan. Now that I'm much older, I have to sunscreen all the time when I go out. What makes it worse is since now I'm bald, it's just more area to cover with the sunscreen.
I like to say it's because the ozone is gone so the sun is stronger, but in reality, it's because I've gotten old and I also rarely spend time in the sun anymore.
Sorry about your sunburn. Usually i tan, but i have gotten a bit burned before and it is not fun at all.
Joe - Thanks. I didn't know if anyone would get it, but I'm glad at least one person did :-) Yeah, growing up as I did in an almost entirely black-free neighborhood, most of us were entirely ignorant of such things. We just assumed black people didn't burn. We were dopes.
Jeff - Yeah, I've also had the bald-headed sunburn a few times. That's why I almost always wear a hat, too.
Mimi - I envy your melanin.
I'm a blue eyed redhead with fair skin so I understand your story completely. But I have the ability to break out in large freckles which seems to cut the sun a bit. However I still need a large hat and long sleeves on a very sunny day.
And you always have the friend who thinks it's funny to slap you on the back....
I have found that a good straw hat slows down the sunburn on my face and neck, and like you shorts are a thing of the past.
I have no problem with shorts or T-shirts, which is fortunate, given the 1000-or-so miles I put on my bike every summer. But I haven't gone shirtless in many years (by which I mean, decades). Even when I'm at the beach, I have a shirt on pretty much every second that I'm not actually in the water. . .
Hi, Suldog. Sorry but did you know Heidi of HOTtakes passed away on May 28, 2015? I saw your comments on her blog. Only found out today.
Argus Lou - Thank you. I had no idea. I'm headed to her place to leave a message.
Thank you for your message. It's strange and terribly sad to find out so long after the fact. I had known her since our twenties but sort of drifted apart a few years before she died. Contacted her husband and he graciously accepted my belated condolence and said it's OK; he has moved on. I was almost outraged because here I was, crying half the day today. (She would've had something to write about that.)
Her one-year death anniversary slideshow is on YouTube - Heidi Olivia Tan In Memoriam - made or put up by her younger brother, I believe. If you're interested.
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