This evening I will attend a celebration in honor of one of our doctoral candidates who received her Ph.D. at NDSU's Winter Commencement this past Friday. The celebration was originally scheduled for Friday, but a Bison win the week prior necessitated a shift of plans. It is difficult for other social engagements to compete these [...]
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YIPPEE!!!!
Well, here we are - four full years into the new forty today. Today I am 54 - one lone year from being officially old enough to order off the senior menu. Yippee!!!! No really - YIPPEE!!!! I am happy to still be on the planet as not everyone gets to stick around until my [...]
40 days and 40 nights
It all started where so many things start with me these days - in the flotsam and jetsam that mingle together randomly in my premenopausal brain. It is a very dangerous situation for someone like me to even become more fragmented and random - there is virtually no telling what the mixture will create from [...]
Flawed, funky, and on occasion, fabulous!
Three years - or in The New Forty count - one thousand and ninety-five days. Whoa. I need to step back and take a breath. I really wasn't sure if I had it in me at the outset. Ah, but the proof is in the pudding. Apparently, there is all kinds of "stuff" in me [...]
Jockeying for the First Lady position…
After watching the Barbara Walters Thanksgiving interview with President and Mrs. Obama, Cheyenne spontaneously announced that she wanted to be the First Lady when she grew up. I was taken aback. Here is how that conversation went: Me: You want to be what? Why wouldn't you want to be the President? Cheyenne: The President has [...]
Year two of the new forty starts here…
“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life. It goes on.” ~ Robert Frost A year ago I entered the new forty with a promise to self - write every day for me. That promise was the genesis of this blog. A year and over 217,000 blog views later, one could [...]
Moving toward belly button bling…
Something somewhat amazing has happened to me in the new forty...I have seen my sense of limitations slowly evaporate. I am not really sure why that is. I wonder if it is the recognition that at least half of one's life has likely passed or if it is a heightened sense-of-self...perhaps it is a little [...]
THE NEW FORTY 