Trying Something New

Here I am at 64 trying something new.  My daughter tells me I have things to say and that I should give blogging a go!  In fact, she told me, the fastest growing number of bloggers are women in my age group!  Isn't that something??  We didn't grow up with computers and we all are blogging away.  For many of us we are learning as we go.  With all the studies out there that tell you using your brain in new ways can help ward off things like Alzheimers, many of us have taken that to heart and are trying new things.  Personally, I love trying new things.  It helps keep life interesting.

I remember taking typing in high school.  I was the last one in the classroom the first day, so I got the last typewriter available.  It was an electric typewriter.  All the keys were capped so you couldn't see where any letter or symbol was.  We learned where everything was without having to see them.  Then after we had it all down pat, we had to rotate around to different typewriters.  My next one was an older manual typewriter.  After barely having to touch a key to get it to type, I now had to push down really hard.  And, guess what else--the keys are not the same on a manual as they are on an electric.    This caused me a great deal of trouble.  Again the keys are capped so you can't cheat and see where things are.  The letters were the same, it was the symbols that were different.  I am sure electric typewriters were designed by a man because no woman would ever have changed the placement of things.  You know, if its not broken why fix it kind of thing.  I tried hard, but I never got my speed past 39 words a minute with no errors--nearly the slowest in the class.  People, you don't know what you have missed by not ever using a manual typewriter.

Anyway, blogging is something new for me.  I am not completely sure what all I will talk about on here, but I do have a few things in mind.  I am sure I will talk about my experiences at the bridge table,  my children and my grandchildren and about traveling--being a retired flight attendant I have lots to say about that.  I am also into fitness and on how our lifestyle and dietary choices catch up with us eventually.  I am also into accountability and being responsible for our own decisions and choices.  I have a wealth of useless knowledge stored away and will bring some of that up from time to time, but if anyone who reads this--if anyone reads this--and has a suggestion, I am always happy to hear about it.  Until next time......