Welcome to our blog.

This was our original purpose for creating this blog:

We are both baby boomers fast approaching sixty. This blog will chronicle the time leading up to reaching our significant day. Our mutual goal is to complete sixty specific tasks each by our 60th birthdays, and to both celebrate our experiences and our accomplishments.

We are "the fabled tortoise" in this effort. Our blog will begin with a slow start, so we ask for your patience. We are aiming for a strong finish, so we ask for your encouragement. We invite you to join us on our journey, laugh and cry with us, and celebrate with us. We encourage you to leave us your comments and feedback. Most of all, we hope you become inspired to perhaps create and complete your very own "___ by ___ list."

We borrowed this idea from a blog one of our nieces told us about: http://makingitlovely.com . The author is working on her list of "30 Before Thirty."

As we progressed we continued to reflect on the process and the progress:

We would like to make a point of clarification. Because we did not begin our endeavor until April that left us both with less than a year to complete all 60 tasks on each of our lists. Actually, JR has about four months and CEA has about seven months. For that reason we agreed that we would both use CEA's birthday so that we both have the same amount of time to complete our tasks.

Now we are both 60 and moving forward. We have decided to continue the blog, setting goals and celebrating our accomplishments, sharing our experiences and voicing our thoughts, and enjoying life by making the most of every day with which we are blessed.

Wednesday, April 14, 2010

JR’s List Item #28 – (March Report) Listen to at least three audio books a month until my 60th birthday.

March audio selections


I love audio books.  I don’t know why.  Maybe it’s because of my elementary teacher who read to my class every day after lunch.  She was an excellent reader and story teller. No matter the reason, when an audio book is an excellent story with perfectly matched narrators, the whole experience for me is magical.

During March, I listened to Prisoner of Birth by Jeffrey Archer, Prince of Fire by Daniel Silva, and The Help by Kathryn Stockett.  I love Jeffrey Archer as an author.  He is masterful at the art of employing “red herrings” in his writing.  Daniel Silva’s Gabriel Alon series has been one of my favorites.  Silva has an interesting way of writing in which he describes the setting, the action, and the character(s) involved only as man or woman; before actually naming the character(s) and continuing the story.  Prince of Fire was not exception. I always find myself guessing who the characters are to whom he is referring.  Sometimes I’m right and sometimes I’m wrong.  My favorite audio book for March, was The Help.  Not only is the story incredible, but the narration features three individual voices for the three main characters in the story.  It truly was a magical experience.
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