Rain usually makes me feel mellow. Curl up in the corner time, slow down, smell the furniture. Today it just makes me feel wet.
The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.
So if it seems that some of what I'll have to say in the pages to come doesn't reflect the mellowing of age, that's only because I've never found that life and memories respond to time the way that tobacco does.
Because you have to just go with the flow. Your life is not your own, with people coming in and out all the time. You get mellow because you have to.
A tart temper never mellows with age; and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.