Nana Chapters

Hello there...my head is spinning just a bit since I had no real intention to start a blog today.  I mean I didn't wake up this morning and say, "Hey, this is the day I will start sharing some of my ideas, life events, and reflections on the internet."  I guess I've been mulling over whether or not to begin recording online, actually to begin recording period, but dinner last night with a newly retired friend must have pushed me a a bit closer to the keyboard.  I was writing out a card meant to welcome her to the retired ranks when I realized that one entire year had passed since collecting my own cards and well wishes.  Where was I now?  I certainly looked at myself as a newbie still to this retired life.  Most dear to me were the days and weeks I had traveled to be with my children and grand boys, with NJ family and friends, and with my husband, Michael, in the Galapagos Islands.  I did manage to share some of my Atlanta adventures in a series of longwinded EMails titled Nana in Atlanta.  While I'm not sure how my target audience, friends and family...a very safe group, felt about receiving detailed accounts of a Nana's life with her grandchild, I must admit that I had a blast reaching back into my day, sorting out adventures and misadventures, and recording them before brain lapse stole them away.  In any case, welcome to this new venture on my part.  I'm not sure how often I'll come here to record the ups and downs that accompany any new undertaking, but like it or not, I have turned the page from life in the traditional job market.  I'm living my life a new way; it is evolving daily especially on a virtual level.  As soon as I figure out how to do attachments, I'll share my first thoughts from last June.  The piece is titled So Now What?...The answer to that question remains uncertain, but that's OK because the journey is, I think, it own adventure.