Comments on: My Blogging Debut http://feistysideoffifty.com/2007/07/30/hello-world/ Celebrating Women 50 and Better Sat, 12 May 2012 18:30:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Jean http://feistysideoffifty.com/2007/07/30/hello-world/comment-page-1/#comment-18 Jean Wed, 16 Apr 2008 22:19:42 +0000 http://feistysideoffifty.com/2007/07/30/hello-world/#comment-18 In three months I will turn 50. My life is good yet what is it about turning 50 that some of us look around and say "is this all there is?" In three months I will turn 50. My life is good yet what is it about turning 50 that some of us look around and say “is this all there is?”

]]> By: popartdivatv http://feistysideoffifty.com/2007/07/30/hello-world/comment-page-1/#comment-19 popartdivatv Sun, 30 Mar 2008 03:22:27 +0000 http://feistysideoffifty.com/2007/07/30/hello-world/#comment-19 I started blogging last year, but I really got into it starting in October with the launch of my website, PopArtDiva.com. I do retro inspired contemporary art and wanted to include pop culture anecdotes and articles about my baby boomer past of the 50s-70s. Then I really got into it with my other obsessions and now I have 8 blogs! I think I've put my entire life on the internet, lol. I started blogging last year, but I really got into it starting in October with the launch of my website, PopArtDiva.com. I do retro inspired contemporary art and wanted to include pop culture anecdotes and articles about my baby boomer past of the 50s-70s. Then I really got into it with my other obsessions and now I have 8 blogs!
I think I’ve put my entire life on the internet, lol.

]]> By: Magnolia http://feistysideoffifty.com/2007/07/30/hello-world/comment-page-1/#comment-17 Magnolia Sat, 08 Mar 2008 16:39:41 +0000 http://feistysideoffifty.com/2007/07/30/hello-world/#comment-17 Your post touched me. When I turned fifty last year one of the things that weighed upon me, was not so much my age, but the fact that if I was getting closer to my mortality, so was my mother. I found myself becoming increasingly more emotional as I thought of her and frankly, have a hard time now wrapping my mind around not having her available for me whenever I want to pick up the phone. Though fifty didn't bother me so much in terms of looking at wrinkles, sagging skin, etc., it did remind me that the time I have left on this earth is numbered and that I should value the relationships I have. I really love your website Eileen. It's very inspriational and well written. Keep it up! Your post touched me. When I turned fifty last year one of the things that weighed upon me, was not so much my age, but the fact that if I was getting closer to my mortality, so was my mother.

I found myself becoming increasingly more emotional as I thought of her and frankly, have a hard time now wrapping my mind around not having her available for me whenever I want to pick up the phone.

Though fifty didn’t bother me so much in terms of looking at wrinkles, sagging skin, etc., it did remind me that the time I have left on this earth is numbered and that I should value the relationships I have.

I really love your website Eileen. It’s very inspriational and well written. Keep it up!

]]> By: Shirley http://feistysideoffifty.com/2007/07/30/hello-world/comment-page-1/#comment-16 Shirley Wed, 27 Feb 2008 00:05:26 +0000 http://feistysideoffifty.com/2007/07/30/hello-world/#comment-16 My oldest daughter has been blogging and absolutely loves it.. she talks about it all the time and I must admist she is quite the little writer!! But then why should I be surprised she used to write the cutest poems when she was in grammar school.... Anyway, I decided to give it a try myself.. I just turned "55".... (still trying to get used to that)!! I sometimes have days though when my body is constantly reminding me with the aches and pains!! ugh : My oldest daughter has been blogging and absolutely loves it.. she talks about it all the time and I must admist she is quite the little writer!! But then why should I be surprised she used to write the cutest poems when she was in grammar school…. Anyway, I decided to give it a try myself.. I just turned “55″…. (still trying to get used to that)!! I sometimes have days though when my body is constantly reminding me with the aches and pains!! ugh :

]]> By: amyoscar http://feistysideoffifty.com/2007/07/30/hello-world/comment-page-1/#comment-15 amyoscar Sat, 13 Oct 2007 15:20:52 +0000 http://feistysideoffifty.com/2007/07/30/hello-world/#comment-15 What did we ever do with all of these thoughts before blogs? Like your experience, my 50th birthday (8/8/07) coincided with a big event in my parents' lives: A few days before the big day, my father's caretaker announced that she was taking a three-week vacation and that I would have to come and live with him, caring for his needs 24/7--AND that when she returned, she hoped he'd be in a nursing home! In a surreal turn of events, my childhood home which had languished on the real estate market for two years, suddenly SOLD, and when I wasn't helping Dad, I was fielding anguished phone calls from my mother, helping her pack, host a huge estate sale... and driving my 19-year-old son to freshman orientation at college. I entered 50 dealing with empty nest syndrome, Medicaid paperwork for Dad's imminent admission to a nursing home, in complete overwhelm and the only thing that's gotten me through it has been my blog. www.amyoscar.blogspot.com Somehow, getting my feelings down on paper wasn't enough. I needed to start a conversation about everything that was happening to me. It wasn't just the stress (which was world-class). I wanted to talk about the disappointment--wasn't 50 the year I'd promised myself to return to Paris? Wasn't this the year I was going to dedicate myself to the fitness and health protocol I was designing? Wasn't I goign to EVER finsih my book? Anyway, thanks for opening this dialogue--I hope you'll check out my site, too. What did we ever do with all of these thoughts before blogs? Like your experience, my 50th birthday (8/8/07) coincided with a big event in my parents’ lives: A few days before the big day, my father’s caretaker announced that she was taking a three-week vacation and that I would have to come and live with him, caring for his needs 24/7–AND that when she returned, she hoped he’d be in a nursing home!

In a surreal turn of events, my childhood home which had languished on the real estate market for two years, suddenly SOLD, and when I wasn’t helping Dad, I was fielding anguished phone calls from my mother, helping her pack, host a huge estate sale… and driving my 19-year-old son to freshman orientation at college.

I entered 50 dealing with empty nest syndrome, Medicaid paperwork for Dad’s imminent admission to a nursing home, in complete overwhelm and the only thing that’s gotten me through it has been my blog. http://www.amyoscar.blogspot.com

Somehow, getting my feelings down on paper wasn’t enough. I needed to start a conversation about everything that was happening to me. It wasn’t just the stress (which was world-class). I wanted to talk about the disappointment–wasn’t 50 the year I’d promised myself to return to Paris? Wasn’t this the year I was going to dedicate myself to the fitness and health protocol I was designing? Wasn’t I goign to EVER finsih my book?

Anyway, thanks for opening this dialogue–I hope you’ll check out my site, too.

]]> By: Claudia http://feistysideoffifty.com/2007/07/30/hello-world/comment-page-1/#comment-14 Claudia Fri, 05 Oct 2007 04:43:57 +0000 http://feistysideoffifty.com/2007/07/30/hello-world/#comment-14 Welcome! I used to write my mother every week, but now she is gone. So now I write a blog as if to her, but also to other friends and family. It is really fun when you add photos. Enjoy! Welcome! I used to write my mother every week, but now she is gone. So now I write a blog as if to her, but also to other friends and family. It is really fun when you add photos. Enjoy!

]]> By: Janice http://feistysideoffifty.com/2007/07/30/hello-world/comment-page-1/#comment-13 Janice Mon, 10 Sep 2007 11:43:30 +0000 http://feistysideoffifty.com/2007/07/30/hello-world/#comment-13 Thank God I found this site! I'm fifty one and can't believe it, how did this happen? I'm bored and embarressed to say it. I have a career I love a husband I love, and yet I say, "is this all there is?" I guess it is Thank God I found this site! I’m fifty one and
can’t believe it, how did this happen? I’m bored
and embarressed to say it. I have a career I love
a husband I love, and yet I say, “is this all there is?”
I guess it is

]]> By: Susan http://feistysideoffifty.com/2007/07/30/hello-world/comment-page-1/#comment-12 Susan Mon, 03 Sep 2007 22:45:53 +0000 http://feistysideoffifty.com/2007/07/30/hello-world/#comment-12 Love that quote Betty.This is the year that I turned 50. It also is the year that many of my friends are turning 50. I have had 3 of my 4 children move out this year and it feels like there might finally be space for me. I think this decade might be my best yet. Love that quote Betty.This is the year that I
turned 50. It also is the year that many of my
friends are turning 50. I have had 3 of my 4
children move out this year and it feels like
there might finally be space for me. I think
this decade might be my best yet.

]]> By: Betty http://feistysideoffifty.com/2007/07/30/hello-world/comment-page-1/#comment-11 Betty Mon, 03 Sep 2007 04:39:40 +0000 http://feistysideoffifty.com/2007/07/30/hello-world/#comment-11 I am an obsessive quote collector. In 1997 (when I was 53) I read this quote from columnist Ellen Goodman in the Columbus Dispatch: "At fifty something you have to build the rest of the life you don't want to regret not living." That about sums it up. I am an obsessive quote collector. In 1997 (when I was 53) I read this quote from columnist Ellen Goodman in the Columbus Dispatch: “At fifty something you have to build the rest of the life you don’t want to regret not living.”

That about sums it up.

]]> By: Kathryn Jones http://feistysideoffifty.com/2007/07/30/hello-world/comment-page-1/#comment-10 Kathryn Jones Fri, 31 Aug 2007 03:14:49 +0000 http://feistysideoffifty.com/2007/07/30/hello-world/#comment-10 When I turned 50, almost 10 years ago, I knew it was a significant milestone. I had other wonderful Boomer role models to follow, so I knew I would mark the passage in a significant way. The book, Getting Over Getting Older, by L. Pogrebin, really helped me see it as a beginning, not an end. I decided to create a ritual and invite several of my women friends to participate. It involed readings, rituals with stone and fire (there's a funny story that goes along with the fire) and then we all had a delcious lunch and opened a few presents. A circle of women always helps, no matter what. I now face my 60th birthday! It seems impossible that 10 years have passed. Yet, those 10 years have been some of the best of my life with work, travel and family (daughter just got married) I have decided to celebrate myself with a big Hornblower Yacht party, with roasts, toasts, dancing and to die for views of SF Bay. I have a killer dress and am ready to have the time of my life. Years count, but the Number does not! I'll let you know how it went. When I turned 50, almost 10 years ago, I knew it was a significant milestone. I had other wonderful Boomer role models to follow, so I knew I would mark the passage in a significant way. The book, Getting Over Getting Older, by L. Pogrebin, really helped me see it as a beginning, not an end. I decided to create a ritual and invite several of my women friends to participate. It involed readings, rituals with stone and fire (there’s a funny story that goes along with the fire) and then we all had a delcious lunch and opened a few presents. A circle of women always helps, no matter what.

I now face my 60th birthday! It seems impossible that 10 years have passed. Yet, those 10 years have been some of the best of my life with work, travel and family (daughter just got married) I have decided to celebrate myself with a big Hornblower Yacht party, with roasts, toasts, dancing and to die for views of SF Bay. I have a killer dress and am ready to have the time of my life. Years count, but the Number does not! I’ll let you know how it went.

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