Where am I and where is my life?

I have been contemplating what is important to say in the first post for a new blog?  I realize that by the time I decide it will be 2021 and time is fleeting. So I decided to pretend I am jumping right smack in the middle.

Appropriate, don't you think, since this is a blog about midlife!!

Midlife was something I did not even consider til now. Did not plan for it, read about or even wonder about. Somehow I missed the fact that like it or not, I would be making my way through midlife land.

It's as if I have lost my ride and now am a hitchhiker, wondering when the next ride is about to appear. The familiar is not so familiar any more. Life has a funny way of letting you know things are changing like when...

...a colleague, who you respect and think of as an equal, (maybe a little younger), mentions that his mom's 52nd birthday is Sunday. You know your 55th has come and gone... 

...the waitress at Denny's suggests you turn over the menu to the great senior specials.....

...you look in the hockey program and realize some of the players were born after  you had been in the workforce for 15 years....


I don't know how most people react when faced with similar situations, but I tend to wonder who they are talking to or what time warp I have entered. Reality is sinking in slowly, I am now closer to 60 that 50, but darn it........it sure seems like a hoax!!


I realize I have a choice, embrace this new land as an adventure or try to push it aside and live with the forever young set. 


I learned a while back that the orange fake and bake tan does not look good on me, so I guess I am left embracing this new adventure. Thanks for joining me on my ride. 


I am looking for the positive and funny BURMA SHAVE SIGNS OF MID LIFE. When I find them, I will share them with you!!


            Adventuring always, 
                             Shrunny