Finally getting started

Maybe I minded getting older more than I realized. I created this blog, declared myself both a crone and a diva, and then. . .what happened? A year and a half slid by. Time does that.

Now I'm back for a couple of good reason. First, I'm invited to participate in a panel on blogging at the Story Circle Network's February conference, Stories from the Heart. (Learn more about this women's lifestory organization athttp://www.storycircle.org/ ,) I have a small-town living blog http://trillap.blgspot.com/ which I kept very active for a couuple of years--but I'd let that one slip as well. I have to play some catchup in the next couple of weeks.

There's another very good, no, better reason. This crone is in her fiftieth year of marriage--to the same person. We both say we've been married more than once, but always to the same person--never a divorce but some serious rule changing several times.

I'll be using this blog to recount how we are spending this "golden year" as well as putting our story in context.

I'll begin tomorrow, meantime here I am--Trilla Pando, all grown up at 67

and here are the children playing grown up--Trilla and Bob have been a married couple for about five minutes. We're in what was deemed my parents' garden (usually it was the plain old backyard) in Amarillo, Texas on the morning of August 30, 1958. I'd been 18 for a whole month, Bob was not-quite 20.