Gregg Sapp

Olympia, Washington

Clover Park Technical College

In the preface to his autobiography "My Life and Hard Times," the great comic writer James Thurber said that nobody should presume to write his (or her) life story before achieving forty years of age. Adjusting that rule of thumb for today's increased longevity, I'd suggest that a modern application of that rule might be that nobody should attempt to write an autobiography until 70 years old (or sooner, if they die). By that reckoning, I've got seventeen more years before I'm qualified. That's a great relief to me, for I've got many more interesting and more urgent things that I'd rather write about. Fiction is an antidote to autobiography. Anyway, that's why I wrote "Dollarapalooza:" to