Reality Sets In
Day 1 It is hard to believe I am a middle-aged woman. Most of the time I feel more like a child, waiting for someone to tell me where to "squat and lean" as the saying goes. However, this year I turn 48 so I am officially a middle-aged woman. There are so many changes I have lived through in this world, I was there for Mount Saint Helen erupting, when I was two. My only memory was that everything was shut down, boards a crossed windows and I thought it was the end of the world. As an elementary child, we watched the news about the California earthquakes, it was horrible. I remember seeing great sections of the cement bridges collapsing on cars and trucks. It was like a disaster movie, though at the time my parents did not allow me to watch anything like that. My mother and I hated the news after the fires that erupted shortly afterwards, where you could hear the cry of animals trapped in houses. In junior high school, I watched ...