I am at midlife sort of (I will deny it till I'm in my dotage which may be next week). My friends say I have an interesting point of view and I love being able to have discussions and learn things from others. More and more as the news floods our homes with disturbing images, as politics gets more polarizing and people seem to forget how hard the "good ole days" really could be. I find myself thinking about a lot of things and some days feeling very alone in my thoughts.
I had a very successful career in business I have worked countless hours and multiple jobs at a time. I worked and earned the successes I had and the failures too. I left all that when I became a mom with full intentions of getting back to it but then child #2 came along just about the time I should have returned and that sort of squashed that idea. Life has this way of changing your plans though. My brother died suddenly when my child was 6 weeks old, my mother had been battling Parkinson's Disease and when she lost one of her babies she gave up fighting the illness and her health declined rather rapidly and I found myself caring for her and 2 small children and any ideas of returning to the frenetic pace of the business world evaporated.
Fast forward a decade, my kids are now teenagers, my mother has passed away and life has just been marching on but the world is now changing in ways and I find myself back to musing about various things happening in the world. I had set up this blog a number of years ago and never activated it intending fully to document my adventures into how you transition from one stage of life to another. How you confront leaving the workforce and reentering. The successes and failures that come with it. To talk about how aging really does suck when you can't just eat ritz crackers and peanut butter for a week and fit into those pants again. Inviting friends to post as guests ideas that I feel are interesting enough to share. I have a friend that is a wonderful at writing satire and hoping she'll contribute on occasion. Throwing my "brand" of thinking and conversing to the blog world as I start the next phase. Well that was the idea and its taken a few years but now I'm ready to get on with it.
What you can expect here. Probably a little of everything. Right now I'm in this mode of repositioning myself so who knows what I will feel like writing about or sharing. I'm at the age where I want to explore thoughts and ideas and not necessarily be limited and while writing this I may and probably will discuss what is relevant to me in the moment so it could be a business topic, my kids, something in the news that I find myself questioning the extremeness of, etc. Or I see something really cool I want to share. I will try and leave the crafty side of my life out of it unless somehow it relates here.
I'm hoping that maybe something I write will inspire, amuse or make you think. I will give this a go for awhile and we'll see what happens. I guess that's enough of an intro. See you with the next post.
