100-yr-old Virginia Writes limericks On iPad

By Jen McGahan • May 17th, 2010

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Virginia is 100 years old. Her kids just bought her an iPad (How sweet is that? In case Virginia doesn’t know it, she is a blessed woman!) and she turns out limericks.

Now aside from the fact that I aspire to be just like Virginia if I’m lucky enough to reach 100 years, I will say that I learned two things from the process of writing this blog post.

Moderators/authors of blogs (are you the same person?) should always read and moderate their readers’ comments and post them ASAP. Otherwise the people who commented will think you thought we were schmucks. Which we are not. To disregard a chummy comment is to dis the writer herself. And anyway, who doesn’t like comments?
Old folks at home are capable. We ourselves are going to get old if we’ve taken good care of ourselves. If we expect the same consideration to be given to ourselves, then we should all listen carefully to the musings of 100-year-old men and women if we should be so lucky to come across them. One hundred years is not so much in the big picture anyway. Know this is true.

Regarding this wonderful post of an old woman using her new iPad, I celebrated her — and the author of the post, I might add — with a limerick of my own. But first you have to see the video:

Now for my limerick:

Virginia has limericks in her.

Though only an iPad beginner,

Her debut was divine.

While her family drank wine

She proved she was still a word spinner.

I want to still be spinning something when I’m 100, don’t you? Every day is an opportunity to learn new things, to learn from others, and to influence your corner of the world.

Good job, Virginia.

(Mr. Shenk, please moderate your comments. By the way, can’t wait to read your book, The Genius in All of Us.)