My Blog Turned 20 & I Missed The Anniversary

Remember when?

May 17, 2006, I started WonderWhoosh! I should really copyright and trademark this brand. Too bad I can't make any money off of it....  

Twenty years is a long time.

Given today's instant, real-time, allknowledgeatyourfingertips world, twenty years is ANCIENT. I can't believe this website still exists. I'm glad it does. There's a certain comfort in visiting this ole friend.  

If you've just found me for the first time, welcome. Feel free to look around, ask questions, judge, love, laugh, maybe even tear up a little.

If you've been here before, thanks for coming back! Feel free to leave a comment, a poem, a joke, or just be a statistic. I don't mind the lurking -- I'm a lurker.

I'm not committing to anything since I have some pretty deep-rooted commitment issues, but I'm going to try to get back here more often. I've constructed a better writing space that's more conducive to the way I like to process & generate words. 

I still love Duran Duran.

I still dance with Simon LeBon in my dreams.

I still read Wonder Woman comics & espouse her greatness.

I'm still WonderWhoosh.

x 

Marilyn Monroe 100

 Happy 100th birthday to this tender woman who endured. Still endures. 

Grandparent Hobbies

Sigh.

I don't love the media POV of hobbies that younger people are choosing to engage in because they're longing for less screen time: knitting, letter writing, stamp collecting, writing in journals, reading tangible books (instead of e-books), crossword puzzles & word searches in tangible paperbacks, coloring in coloring books, paper crafting like origami...

....why does there have to be an age factor on this phenomenon?

We don't do this with, say, sports, or any physical activity. Well, maybe ballroom dancing, but that activity gets propped up by "Dancing With The Stars".  

Why can't it just be -- I'm interested in things that don't include a screen?  

Young people have enough to deal with -- the last thing they need is to be called old in their youth. (Don't get me started on the negative bias that exists for older folks....)

Wishing all you young people happy collecting and joyful creating and happy be-ing.