Looking for blogs

I’m sure you’re surprised to receive this after such a long hiatus but I have a question….

Does anyone know of blogs or devotionals being written by Christian women of - shall we say - mature age?

[PS doesn't usually come first in a letter, but it does today.  If you don't want to continue getting my blog you can unsubscribe without hurting my feelings. The list is maintained by a third party and I do not know who subscribes and who doesn't.]

We have some excellent young women writing very well but I crave input from my own generation. The young use examples of pregnancy and child raising, career problems, buying first house, conflicts arising in a young marriage, how to cope with too much to do, etc. I can relate because those are part of my past. Been there. Got the T-shirt. Survived. But now my concerns include career gone, downsizing of home and belongings, losses of all sorts, relating to grown children and their children, having husband home all day because he's retired too, having to manage unscheduled time, etc. I know there are very good blogs and devotionals suitable for all ages and stages and I subscribe to a few. However, I feel the need for some closer camaraderie and I have found very few that fit the category.

It boggles the mind

Bringing this blog to life has caused me to reflect on technology.  We've all received those forwarded emails detailing the many changes current technology has brought our way. Today I can’t help but personalize it a bit.

Personalizing it means backing up to attendance at "Commercial College" in New Westminster taking courses in:

§  comptometer - rows and rows of manual push buttons to do basic math calculations

§  typing  - manual of course  - 60 words a minute was the goal - kah-ching every time you went down a line - remember the noise in the typing pool!

§  bookkeeping ledgers -  long paper in a hardbound book - blue lines both horizontal and vertical - had to be done in pen

§  and as I recall we even took penmanship and spelling tests

Who can forget mimeograph - spirit duplicator - gestetner - thermofax - lots of blue ink and stinky chemicals everywhere - carbon copies - any mistakes were virtually impossible to obliterate. (FYI "gestetner" wasn't even in my built-in word processing dictionary! And does anyone ever use "word processing" in a sentence anymore?!)

Sounds like it all belongs to the last century – and of course - it does!

Is my real self there somewhere?

I have always looked young for my age…

Every once in a while

I looked forward to retirement.  Really I did! Freedom!  And it happened - slowly in a sense, moving from full time to part time to casual and finally to naught.

But I must admit - every once in a while - I miss the hurly burly of the work-a-day world.  My current retired life is lovely, having filled it sensibly with family, travel, volunteering, hobbies -livin' the dream! some might say. But just now and then I miss things like -- winning the job posting, accomplishment resulting from the effort of doing a job well, being sponsored at seminars and conferences, the camaraderie of co-workers, the make it or break it, do or die, climb the ladder of success type of challenges.  Vacations and long weekends had more meaning.