My Money Compounds Backwards

Nancy Daley
3 min readDec 30, 2022

Sigh.

Some people collect Picassos. I have a bottle of pennies. (Author’s photo)

I was notified this morning that a recent post of mine is being “distributed.” I believe this means on Twitter, where I imagine 100,000,000 people will have read it by lunchtime today. Thank you, Ann Litts at Crow’s Feet!

Great news! I hustled myself out of bed and set about looking for the top-secret password hiding place so I could see if I’m on Twitter (ick?) and connect this account to said app.

My Twitter password didn’t work and didn’t work and then it did. How is it that we don’t see laptops flying out of windows every day? I don’t know how I have refrained from tossing mine every time the most recent password I have isn’t good enough.

It took me a few minutes to figure out how to connect my accounts, and don’t even ask me how I did it because I have no idea. These are things I look up, open numerous windows for, attempt the step-by-steps, and hope for the best. The process is then immediately wiped from my brain.

Be all that as it may, I was “explaining” to my spouse what it means to have an article distributed on…

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Nancy Daley

Artist, food-worshipper, grouch, retired psychologist and uni lecturer (Human Sexuality). Currently running for Queen of the Universe.