Document Type
Blog
Publication Date
3-29-2017
Abstract
When I turned 50, I was delighted because all of a sudden, I didn't care anymore what people thought of me. I didn't care if they thought I was a bad mom or not. I did my best, not my very best, but the best I could do at the time. As a lifelong people pleaser, this wasn't easy, but I was finally free from those haunting voices of "What would they think?" and "Who do you think you are?" The relief was palatable, and the energy saved was redistributed into the continued task of raising the rest of my kids and crafting new ideas for my future. My blog was born shortly after this discovery. Subsequently, as I slouch toward sixty, the fears that have anchored themselves into my being are finally being dislodged
Keywords
Erma Bombeck, humor writing, Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop, University of Dayton
eCommons Citation
Fentanes, Donna, "Slouching towards 60" (2017). Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop Blog. 1596.
https://ecommons.udayton.edu/ebww_blog/1596
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