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.

Saturday, May 15, 2010

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

April audio selections

  • The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown:  This has been my favorite of Dan Brown's Robert Langdon books.  My father was a Mason which may be why I really enjoyed the book.  Maybe it is the setting of Washington, D.C. that made the story more enjoyable.  Not matter the reason it was a very good listen.
  • The Kill Artist by Daniel Silva:  Being a fan of Daniel Silva's series featuring the character, Gabriel Alon, I searched Audible.com (been a member for years) for any in the series I had missed.  I discovered this one, his first in the series.  It is a shorter book than his others, but it did a good job is setting up the characters and the back story for the rest of the books.  The narrator for these books has not always been the same person.  This particular narrator was not my favorite.
  • Nora, Nora by Anne Rivers Siddon:  I have long been a Siddon fan.  Nora, Nora is a coming of age story et sin the Lytton, Georgia during the Civil Rights movement.  It is the story of a girl who finds the truth about her family and then finds her true self.  This was charming book.
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4 comments:

The 60 by 60 Ladies said...

While Angels & Demons is my favorite Brown book, I did enjoy The Lost Symbol. I was fascinated with the body art: That depiction in the movie should be very interesting! I have the new Daniel Silva on order!

May 15, 2010 at 9:23 PM
The 60 by 60 Ladies said...

How does one use editing tools in comments? I couldn't figure out how to italicize my titles.

May 15, 2010 at 9:25 PM
The 60 by 60 Ladies said...

There is no editing tools for comments. I guess we retired educators are just going to have to be frustrated and extra careful.

May 16, 2010 at 8:58 AM
The 60 by 60 Ladies said...

See! ...extra careful. I mean... There ARE no editing tools for comments...

May 16, 2010 at 9:01 AM

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