Midlife Crisis I'm 44!
At 44, I thought I should give blogging a try as part of my midlife crisis. Some say it’s therapeutic. For me, I feel it will help improve my writing and reduce mistakes with autocorrection. I’ve been alive for 1,401,164,252 seconds (and counting), but the reasons behind blogging are still a mystery to me. The concept of putting my ideas into words always makes me question the whole process… but I digress. Being born… this is the topic that brought me here today. I was born in Portugal as an only child, until my sister came along three years later. My parents were very young when they had me - think of Portugal in 1975 with two newlyweds and a child on the way. My mother quit her job to stay home with me while my father worked in construction or as a driver. My mother mentioned he even drove a funeral car for a while. They were so young! Now that I have a 3-year-old at 44, it seems crazy to think about. I recently watched a homemade video of my parents when they were younger than I am ...