• Life after 50,  Motivation

    Planning for Change

    Happy New Year! Happy changes! Yes, it is only August, and I said, “Happy New Year!” When I was teaching high school, I would greet my students on the first day of school in August with “Happy New Year!” No,…

  • Life after 50,  Motivation

    Right here! Right now!

    I hear it far too often: It’s not my fault that I am in the position I’m in; What happened is not my fault; I didn’t do anything to get ___ (fill in the blank with anything that is negative…

  • Life after 50,  Motivation

    Age is a number!

    Last Friday, my husband and I went to the Mule Days craft fair/flee market/and exhibitions. We sat with food truck burgers to watch the rodeo clown show. I was expecting several “guys” dressed in rodeo clown outfits and showing off…

  • Kishwaukee River
    Life after 50,  Motivation

    Are you actually living?

    Today, I am taking a risk. My goal was to launch this blog in January. January became February, and February became March. Now I find that this is the first Monday of April. If I wait until I get this…