The Tale of the Crisis Blog

Okay, so I have to admit that I decided to start this blog because everyone is blogging.  Blogging these days is like smoking was to my generation and the ones before it.  It's an accessory that says, "I am revolutionary." It makes you edgy, it makes you hip, it makes you sound smart even if you aren't. At the point in my life where I am passing middle-age with lightning speed, I need all the edgy and hip I can get.

But what to blog about?  After looking at a multitude of examples, apparently the topic doesn't matter, in fact any topic will do.  However, a topic you know something about can make you sound smart (even if you aren't).  I went through a wide range of ideas in my head:  road trips?  the meaning of life?  teaching tips from a teacher?  Every idea was rejected for fear of sounding too "middle-aged", in other words, far from hip and edgy.

I realized that since turning 45, I have a fear of being too "middle aged".  Perhaps this is my midlife crisis.  According to blogger, Keera Fox, a crisis is a moment of decision, a time to choose, a time to act.  It should cause us to re-evaluate our lives and the direction we are going.  We should have less fear and anxiety about ourselves after facing a crisis.  A crisis is a grounding event. Something worth sharing.  Something worth talking about.

I have decided to embrace my middle-agedness, to face it and to see life's events with new eyes.  From this blog forward, I will unabashedly put my middle-aged stamp on everything I see, do and think.,, and, like it or not,  I will share it with you in this blog. 

And now, from the perspective of my midlife crisis (crises?), I offer you my thoughts on everything,