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.

Sunday, August 1, 2010

JR’s List Item #50 – (done) Write at least four new postings for BCLT Blog.

I just completed my fourth blog for my storeblog, Positive (Thoughts + Words + Actions) = Positive Life: 
  • Children (Do Indeed) Learn What They Live
  • What Messages Are We Sending Our Students?
  • It's Time for Math Phobia to Leave the Building
  • Excuse Me, But Do You Speak Mathematics?
When I started this blog, I wanted to promote my posters at BRAIN CUES Learning Tools, but I also wanted to share what I thought was useful information especially for educators.  In my mind, I am not a particularly good writer, but I do think the messages have been good ones.  The blog has been a nice way of providing a back story for the messages of the posters and research as to why they are beneficial.  I have also had to continue my professional reading which is certainly an added benefit for me.
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