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This is a story about coming of age at 51. The heroine in this madcap adventure is me. Someone, by recent disappointments, made smarter, wiser and better able to appreciate what comes my way than I was at say 21. The setting: my two cities, Portland, Oregon and Tulsa, Oklahoma. The story is of surviving and hopefully flourishing by embracing not just another man, but LIFE. Think of what that means. Auntie Mame described life as a banquet. I don’t intend to be one of those fools who starve when so much is within reach. I am hungry.
“It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.” Alan Cohen
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February 4th, 2010 at 2:20 pm
I’ve been a part of a group of women ATOG (All the Old Gals) who have gathered four days every summer for 20 years to eat, shop, and reconnect. Nothing like it!
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February 4th, 2010 at 9:56 pm
REI is one of my favorite stores!! I love shopping there.
And yes I have traveled with a pack before, one memorable trip in 1999 to Idaho with a rather ecclectic group of outdoor types – cavers and boaters – with rafts and kayaks. The plan was to run Hell’s Canyon but massive snow melt that summer altered the plan to rafting the Salmon River, touring a couple of volcanos, Craters of the Moon National Park and a class 5 rafting trip through the Royal Gorge on the Arkansas River in Colorado. Yep! I’d do it again in a heartbeat!
Have fun at the spa!
B