Any Shiny Thing - Life after 50
Midlife Fiction
I remember times before computers! In 2009, I started blogging using Dreamweaver. Yes, that one. OMG, I still have a headache from that experience. Which is why I’m so happy we’ve progressed. Life for writers is now so much easier.
I stopped coloring my hair about five years ago. After half a century, I was finally able to reject what I felt as societal pressure and go gray. Reject ageism. Accept mortality. Yes, I have been accused of overthinking. But still.
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Aging is complicated. I often speak about positive aging, about the good stuff that comes with age if we’re not too fearful to appreciate it. But the fact is, a lot of the good happens in your brain. The two hemispheres begin to communicate better. You can solve complex problems in a snap using pattern recognition. You’re not as affected by drama. You’re more calm, maybe even happier. Strange how the aging brain seems to get stronger.
As I sit writing in the pre-dawn, a blessing arrives: the sound of raindrops on my patio roof. I’m struck by inspiration: how beautiful it would be to feel the drops on my skin. I set my notebook aside and open the front door, but there’s a problem.
We Boomers are a monster demographic. When I was in elementary school at St. Gregory’s, the nuns struggled to teach as many as sixty kids in a class. [Read more…]
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