Respect your elders. Don't expect anyone else to support you. Maybe you have a trust fund. Maybe you'll have a wealthy spouse. Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it.
Advice is a form of nostalgia.
Dispensing it is a way of fishing the past from the disposal, wiping it off, painting over the ugly parts, and recycling it for more than it's worth. But trust me on the sunscreen. Also, a division of the American Cancer Society in Batiuk's home state of Ohio has asked the cartoonist to help create one or more breast cancer-awareness posters. Meanwhile, Batiuk has received numerous letters from breast cancer survivors and others praising him for the series. Lynn Johnston's United Media strip was tops among 12,063 readers responding to a Newark, N.J., Star-Ledger poll.