I started this blog in 2012.   I was leaving my job and I thought I was reinventing myself.   Maybe I thought I’d be a world famous blogger.   I am not sure.  Whatever my intent, I did enjoy it, and I met a lot of people.   Then I took a turn, and I became a small business owner.   Never did I realize that by taking that step, I’d discover a confidence that lived inside of me.   In 2015, when I made that step, I stopped writing in this blog — with the exception of a few entries here and there.  Truthfully, I didn’t like the way it looked.  I didn’t like what I thought it would be.   While I had the desire to write things down, I didn’t like doing in on the fluffy site that I’d loved just a few years before.   It no longer felt like me.  I’d changed.

We closed our 4th season with our small business this year, and I’m not going to waste the 8 months or so we have before we reopen.  I want to accomplish some things.   I decided to start with my blog.   I wanted a new look…so tonight…I wiped out the old and I started with a basic theme which, maybe I’ll customize a bit.   It’s not pretty but that will force me to learn new things to attempt to make it look better.    I’d like to change the name, too, but I am not going to do so as I’ve got that website domain prepaid.

I’m going to enjoy redoing this website, and I”m going to enjoy writing in it.

I realized that there are almost no sites where people talk about aging in the sense that we all age.  We just do it.   There’s mommy bloggers, health bloggers, book bloggers, home dec/DIY bloggers, fashion bloggers, etc, but I seldom see anyone who is my age.  I don’t want to talk about aging either, but I want to be a person that didn’t stop at a certain age.   It’s not a dirty word.    When a person stops growing and changing, they stop.   My hope it that when you call me on the phone,  I don’t focus on our birthdays or my health and your health, but instead, we talk about the books we’ve read, the movies we’ve seen, the places we plan to visit, what we learned this week or the room that we plan to paint.

Let’s go.