I finally tracked down the password and user ID for this blog. You can really confuse yourself if you try to transition out of your old server and to a new one and end up with multiple e-mail accounts. Did I mention I that ADD runs in my family? When I was struggling to get my son through school, suddenly all the things they were telling me about him sounded suspiciously familiar. I realized right away that it was going to be a case of the blind leading the blind.
I am officially old now, so I can blame some of it on that. I am on Medicare and drawing Social Security. I turned 65 a few months ago, so I can no longer even claim to be a "twenior"--my name for someone between 50 and 65. I am there. Old!
So I am rather embarrassed to see that it has been seven years since I posted anything on this blog. However, having one of those minds that always finds a connection between things, I told myself that the seven lean years are over and that means, at least as far as my writing goes, I am poised to have seven years of plenty!
And I have been doing a lot of writing. I just haven't published anything lately. Lately meaning almost ten years now. But I am doing a very important piece of writing--my personal history. Here is a little excerpt from the intro.
Recently
a friend posted something funny on Facebook about his “unauthorized
autobiography.” For those of you who may be a little humor impaired, or perhaps
not quite old enough to understand the implication of those words, allow me to
explain.
Now doesn't that make you want to cheer me on to finish this particular project? A few health "challenges" have arisen lately to remind me that time is not an unlimited commodity. I am proud to say that I have finished the rough draft of the first section of my life, loosely divided into four periods of twenty years. The first installment is called, coincidentally, "Rough Draft." From age twenty to forty is called "The Plot Thickens." After that comes volume three, "An Open Book." The fourth and final volume will be entitled "Working to Deadline."
At one point I had wondered what I would write about from sixty on, feeling as one starts to at a certain age, that most of my grand adventures are probably behind me, but which of us could predict what was coming in 2020 and beyond? So I feel certain that as long as I am still here, there will be things to write about.
Carry on!