Where are we going?

As we move forward, we are working to engage in activities to let folks know we are here. We realize that anyone can simply start talking and create a blog.  You don’t know us yet, so you can’t make a determination if we are worth your time.  In that spirit, it seemed appropriate to give you a better idea of what we are trying to accomplish.

We have intentionally kept the topics on this blog limitless. That is not conventional wisdom in blogging, so we may soon find that we should repent and take the road more traveled. I realize that a wide range of topics makes it difficult for our readers to test our veracity or our believability. If our topics were more focused, it would be simpler to apply the appropriate search engine optimization strategies and get the necessary links and track backs so you could see how others feel about our content. But this blog is about how women over fifty think and feel about the world around them. It just didn’t make sense to start off limiting that discussion.

I am enough of a social scientist to know that the topics of our conversations are limited by our personal experiences and our life history. So, it will be true that our initial directions here will be driven by our experiences. That’s why you have a post about tweezers. It certainly isn’t because tweezers are a intensely significant subject that all women over 50 should care about.

We hope that our life histories have been varied enough and interesting enough that they can drive our initial conversations. We hope that so many of you start to participate that we will have to organize all the information into categories and subjects in order for us to take advantage of all the wisdom contained in the blog. That would be a problem I would enjoy having.

We will have guest bloggers on occasion, particularly women who bring particular expertise to the discussion. Since our experiences are driving the topics, we will attempt to offer other opinions besides our to expand the discussions. We are professional women who respect our professions. We are products of our socio-economic status, our races, our families, our experience and our era. We social workers call the “person-in-environment.”   We are letting you know right up front that we know we bring ours. So, now let’s talk.