September 5, 2014
Blogging After 50

I’ve noticed a distinct absence of bloggers in their 50’s and 60’s (particularly in the top 10 bloggers list)- we need to step out and let the world know we aren’t dead yet. So for some odd reason I thought it a good idea for me to start a blog – partly because I thought it might keep me sane (with all this back and forth between two worlds) and partly because I wanted to share a big city girl’s (can hardly refer to me as a girl) immersion in small town life and from time to time talk about art. Since I’m a part-time Mississippian now I had hoped the writing skills would come with the property tax bills- but unfortunately, that didn’t happen. I’ll try to stay off the soapbox, try to not overly sentimentalize the rewards of small town life or the importance of saving beautiful old (crumbling) buildings and avoid trying to convince anyone to do what my husband and I have done- trade a fairly normal, routine, happy (and did I say mostly) retired lifestyle for the schizophrenic one we have created! Actually, I promise nothing, except to report the facts as I see them.