Grandchildren to Consider

If you've been keeping up with my blog over the years, then you know the reason why I started this Internet journal in the first place: I felt the much-loved younger members of my family needed some wise elder perspective on their journeys through life. How can they possibly navigate their way around Planet Earth without help from someone who's made the trip before them?

On January 1, 2010, I sat down with pen and paper and began writing. After a few minutes, my hand began to cramp, so I opened a document in Word on my computer and started typing. Then it hit me: Why don't I just share what I've learned these past six plus decades through a blog? Everyone has a computer these days. How easy would it be for my intended audience to click on The Ramblings of an Aging Baby Boomer to read my life stories, to witness the mistakes I've made, to learn where the potholes in life are, to circumvent self-inflicted pain and suffering, or to see that a lot of the time I have no wisdom or advice to share--just a little silliness. As it turns out, not easy. Not easy at all. Very difficult in fact. They're not reading my blog. They're going through each day without any input from me. Imagine that.

But I'm still gonna keep on rambling. There's grandchildren to consider.

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