Owners Manual

That’s what I’m working on. How do I operate my life? I live in two places (more later) I’m a 54 year old woman who likes to think that I’m on the road to wisdom. Some days I think I’m smart. Some days I think not so much. And other days I realize something should have been obvious long ago but I never saw it until now. I categorize myself as a slow learner. But certainly don’t consider myself stupid. More like something that takes a long time to cook, but the flavors are more multi-layered and delicious because of it.
And I’ll tell you one thing about myself right now. I don’t like to cook, so it’s odd that I’d use a cooking analogy right off the bat. I wish I liked to cook. The idea of entertaining friends and family with something I’ve made has a certain charm. But my idea of entertainment is setting a nice table and knowing where to get good take out. When I’m in Southern California I know all the good take out places in my neighborhood. When I’m up here, in the Pacific Northwest, I live in a small town and the only take out comes from my sister-in-law who is a gourmet cook. There’s a ying and yang to my life down south, and up north. I’ll write about that. And about my marriage, even though I’ve come to believe it’s an archaic institution made of smoke and mirrors. And that brings me to uncertainty and change, and I’ll write about that too. I’ve never understood blogging, twittering, facebooking. Computerized forms of revealing things about oneself that should be private. But one of the chapters in my Owners Manual is “How Not to Stay Stuck By Ignoring Current Technology and Insisting That Things Stay the Same”. Because what would be the point in staying stuck? So, here I go….

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