Hi. Hi there. Hi. Hello.

Lookie, lookie, I have a web site. How about that. It makes me feel sort of shy. It makes me wonder how to spell “lookie.” I kind of think it’s really “lookee,” only that looks wrong, too. But, um, anyway, hi. (Tentative wave.) Hi. Or, as Elwy Yost used to say at the beginning of Saturday Night at the Movies on TV Ontario, “Hi. Hi there. Hi. Hello.” I saw Elwy on the subway once. A young woman in a thrift shop coat got up for her stop and stood by the doors and then just before the doors opened bent her head around the glass to tell him how it had made her day, just seeing him on the subway. That made my day.