Thank you, everyone, for some great ideas! I have not given up. When I met with my teacher yesterday, he gently walked me through positioning my guitar properly, gave me some additional stretches to use, and told me that it will all kick in one day. So I have to be prepared to sound horrible, LOL, for a while. This is not going to be an overnight thing. Meantime, the grandkids who live with me kept wanting to play with my guitar. Not good. All three now have ukeleles and are learning to play. They are far more open and don't care how they sound. I am taking their strategy and applying it to my own practice. It is a noisy but happy house.