http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/brensblogging/Just whatever I'm thinking about at the moment. Thanks to Midi for loaning yet another blog to me. Lots has been going on, lots to think about, and I feel a need to come back and blog about it. Well, for tonight anyway. hourly12000-01-01T12:00+00:00http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/brensblogging/302173In about seven hours I will turn 50. It's funny, my 50th birthday is on a Sunday, and it was on a Sunday 50 years ago that I was born at 5:00 in the morning. My boss invited me over tonight, she and the other librarian, a young 30-something black guy, had wine and cheese, then pizza and beer. We...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/brensblogging/283224Yes, it's really going to happen, this September. I've felt young all my life but I guess I'd better start feeling my age. I'm showing it, that's for sure. If I go too long without a hair-dye job, the roots really show my gray. My boss, who has a way at giving great compliments, asked me today...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/brensblogging/219576I beg your pardon, I never promised you a rose garden... remember that song? And even rose gardens have thorns, as I discovered anew when planting new rose bushes in my yard this fall/winter. Seems like no matter how sunny life seems at times, especially when we look back on the far distant past,...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/brensblogging/219459Just found out my topic at Suite101 has been archived and is up for adoption! I had asked for some time off because of my divorce, but I guess I took too long. It's just as well. Suite101 quit paying the next month after I started writing there. I remember being very surprised that my application...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/brensblogging/217392I believe in them. So many things have happened in the past year, so many amazing things, if I didn't believe before, no way could I not believe now. I don't think we have to be terribly good to believe, to receive, to have miracles come our way. I wasn't, am still not, just prayed, things...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/brensblogging/208224A year ago a colleague who was just older than me lost her life on the way home from a meeting. Such a waste, she was successful, had a husband and two teenage kids, so much to live for, but suddenly her life was gone. Each week I read my newspaper from back home online, and mainly I'm interested...