What About Me

This week I’m taking a class on audio description and was asked to provide a description of myself in no more than 100 words.

Of course, I was agonizing over whether my age would be helpful. Does “63-year-old woman” provide a handy shortcut to understanding how wrinkled I probably am, without getting into the lines between my eyebrows and the crinkles around my eyes? What about the gravity of my jawline?

I thought it’d fit the genre’s expectations, so (surprise!) I included it. I’m gratified to learn I was wrong.

As the teacher says, Age doesn’t describe how somebody looks.

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