Ronnie's Blog Spot

Booming Boomer

I wonder why I can't be one of those booming boomers who is creating something and/or doing something new and exciting post age 50. From afar, if you didn't know me, it would seem as if I was fully engaged in a journey of reinvention and self-realization. After all, I am in graduate school to get my master's degree in communications -- which I expect to finish by no later than December of 2007. I am teaching at the University of North Florida -- various journalism classes.

I am in yoga classes. am an avid reader. To others appear to be a successful and loving mother of two teen-age boys, sometimes I agree, other times I think I just haven't lived up to my expectations as far as they are concerned. But the way I view myself is much differently. I am teaching and studying because I don't know what else to do. I have not been able to get a job since I was "restructured" out of my position at the University of Florida in July 2005. I feel fat, awkward and has been pointed out to me by "friends" -- have a very low sense of self-esteem. True perhaps, but I didn't need to hear it. What would I want to be doing -- when I see the books -- the boomer books -- as evidenced by USA Today's article today -- I want to be writing. People always tell me I write well -- I don't know if it's true -- but really and truly what I want to be when I grow up is a writer. Maybe blogging is the way to start.

I am babbling now because I don't expect anyone to read th is except myself. And I will be extremely humiliated and embarassed should anyone else dip into this. Maybe I will ch ange the name so it doesn't carry my name on it. After all, google can probably make its way into anything and who knows what key word I might have inadvertently slipped in here.

Off to yoga now, my friends. Later.

posted by Ronnie @ 1:32 PM