Cartoon By Unknown Student Displayed at Quincy, Massachusetts Library
Story & Photo – Joseph Boyle
The years spanning the 1950s through the 1980s were not good years for me to be a writer.
My penmanship is more like “scribblemanship”. A medical doctor once gave me a supreme insult. Even though busy physicians are notorious for hurried and illegible penmanship, the doctor said to me, “Joe, surely you can write better than this!”