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.

Monday, August 2, 2010

JR’s List Item #27 – (June/July report) Read at least one book a month until my 60th birthday.

June reading selection:

For my June selection I read Carol Burnett's new book, This Time Together:  Laughter and Reflection.  I loved it.  The book is written as if Carol Burnett is sitting in the room having a conversation with the reader; answering questions and sharing memories.  She talks about the events and the people who have impacted her career and her life. I loved the nostalgia.

Burnett, Carol,  This Time Together:  Laughter and Reflection.  New York:  Harmony Books, 2010.  ISBN 978-0-307-46118-6 


July reading selection:
My July reading selection is actually a reread, a book I read when it was first published in 1998.  I read this book again because I wanted to use Marilyn Burn's message as the foundation for my store blog post, "It's Time for Math Phobia to Leave the Building."  This book was published twelve years ago, yet the message is as relevant today as it was then.  For me, this is both sad and disturbing; twelve years later and opinions about mathematics has not changed.

Burns, Marilyn, Math: Facing an American Phobia. Sausalito, California: Math Solutions Publications, 1998. ISBN 0-941355-19-5
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