Disturbing the Sacred

In my high school yearbook, I quoted a line from a Susanne Vega song, “And when I’m dead, if you can tell them this, what was wood, became alive.” I have always considered myself a closet goth. I guess they are called emu now. I never thought I would live past my 30s. Now I’mContinue reading “Disturbing the Sacred”

Middle Age or Senior Citizens?

As a Gen Xer in her fifties, I get annoyed with all these millennials calling themselves middle-aged. When I was growing up, middle age was considered to be people in their 50s and 60s. If Millennials are considered middle-aged, what does that make Gen Xers – senior citizens? I don’t feel elderly, and I darnContinue reading “Middle Age or Senior Citizens?”