I’m A Fraid So

Jim Hagarty
2016

Timidity is a character trait, not a flaw. Bullies are drawn to it and maybe increase it but they didn’t create it. No one did. That was the work of that dreaded wicked witch, Jenn Ettics. Still, it exists, and like everything in nature, could not be a mistake. The trick is for the timid and the bold to share the world we all occupy side by side, in peace.

Author: Jim Hagarty

I am a 72-year-old retired journalist, busy recovering from a lifelong career as an unretired journalist. This year marks a half century of my scratching out little fables about life. My interests include genealogy, humour and music. I live in a little blue shack in Canada and spend most of my time trying to stay out of trouble. I am not that good at it. I also spent years teaching journalism. Poor state of journalism today: My fault. I have a family I don't deserve, a dog that adores me, and two cars the junk yard refuses to accept. My prized possessions include my old guitar and a razor my Dad gave me when I was 14 and which I still use when I bother to shave. Oh, and my great-great-grandfather's blackthorn stick he brought from Ireland in the 1850s. I have only one opinion but it is a good one: People take too many showers.