At 85, no tattoos
I’ll be celebrating my 85th birthday soon so my perspective is clearly different from letter writer Samantha Haber's response to Peter Orszag’s Oct. 11 Other Views article, A tattoo speaks volumes about the U.S. economy.
However, I would like to offer an old man's thoughts on the subject of tattoos. I've looked back at the things I did and some of them were pretty stupid.
The one thing that I didn't do was memorialize any of them by permanently engraving them on my skin. As a result I can think back to events and say, “Wow! That was really dumb,” and I'm the only one with that ability.
I owe a debt of thanks to the earlier me for that. He wasn't quite as silly as I sometimes think he was.
Arnold Slotkin, Miami
This story was originally published October 30, 2014 at 6:57 PM with the headline "At 85, no tattoos."