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Boogaloo!

As Bob Seger would say "Now seventeen has turned thirty-one." Or in my case, thirty-two. Even better is this weirdo lyric by Ringo Star : "Now I'm only thirty-two and all I want to do, is boogaloo!" Whatever that means, but I guess I'm on board. I know that Age is just a number, a tally, and really quite meaningless, but I do feel different now that I've been thirty-two for two days. I guess it occurred to me that I am no longer on the fence, I am in my thirties now. I feel more confident, more solid. Once I was glass, but now I'm crystal, and more likely to chip than to shatter.  It's not that my values have changed a ton over the years. Ten years ago I was going to nursing school and writing on the side. I was a vegetarian and spent every moment with my faithful first love, Shera the dog. I was exploring the woods every chance I got, roaming the streets, partying and making bad romantic choices. If you held up a mirror to my twenty-two year o