Because it's Sunday, and no one's reading anyway....

....I'll do the current meme.

Age when I decided I wanted to be a writer: 6
Age when I got my hands on a typewriter and taught myself to use it: 7

Age when I wrote my first short story: 2nd grade (probably 6)
Age when I wrote my first novel: 10

Age when I first submitted a short story to a magazine: 41
Thickness of file of rejection slips prior to first story sale: 5
Rejection slips prior to first pro sale: 9
Lifetime number of rejections: 45
Age when I sold my first short story: 41
Age when I killed my first market: 41
Approximate number of short stories/novelettes/novellas sold for cash money: 9
Age when I first came close to selling a novel: Do we call having the full mss held for 10 months (after being requested) '"coming close"? If so, then DD was held back when I was….41, I think.
Age when the money coming in exceeded my previous employment: Hah!
Age now: 44