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 22, 2010

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

May listening selections:

  • Paths of Glory by Jeffrey Archer:  Great job, Mr. Archer!  Because this was a Jeffrey Archer novel, I purchased the audio.  Before the story even starts, Archer breaks your heart.  He then goes on to tell an compeling story of the short life and unexplained death of George Mallory, a mountaineer whose ultimate quest was to reach the summit of Mt. Everest.  This was a wonderful read made all the more enjoyable upon discovering (via the internet) the real George Herbert Leigh-Mallory.  I also want to give kudos to narrator, Roger Allam, who also narrated Prisoner of Birth.  Read it or listen to it, but don't pass it up.  Fantastic!
  • The Collectors by David Baldacci:  I admire authors who can create characters that you come to love, wish you knew, and anguish every minute of a suspenseful story that something is going to happen to one of them.  David Baldacci is one of those authors and the Camel Club members are just such characters.  I loved his first book, The Camel Club.  As a second in the series, The Collectors did not disappoint.
  • Divine Justice by David Baldacci:  I was a little worried at the end of Stone Cold about the fate of the Camel Club, so I immediately went in search of a fourth book.   Like the previous books in the Camel Club series, Divine Justice was a great story.  I am ready for the next one.
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