Geriatric Or Just Wise?

by Ellie Stoneley

Mother, Me & Hope Mother, Me & Hope

“Age is an issue of mind over matter.  If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter” – Mark Twain

I’ve been asked so many times what it feels like to be an ‘older Mother.’ It always strikes me as a silly question, really, it’s not as if I knew what it was like to be a younger mother. I am what I am, we are where we are and I am 48 1/2 with a 12 month old daughter… I am happy, blissfully happy, if a little tired most of the time. […]

Runaway

by Valerie Gillies

And I would run away
I would run away, yeah…, yeah
I would run away
I would run away with you

Cause I am falling in love with you
No never I’m never gonna stop
Falling in love with you

The Corrs  “Runaway”

I use music like a pyromaniac uses gasoline.  It’s a mood accelerant.  Sad?  I can be sadder in a flash.  Elated? Romantic? Hyper?  There’s a tune for just about everything.  Technological improvements, like the iPod I can’t quite master, caused me to misplace some of my favorite tunes. How appropriate it was that I found the loaded CD holder yesterday, the first of my 48 days of summer.  I popped in Runaway and was swept back nearly 20 years, late at night after all four chicken pox ridden children had finally collapsed, my lover and I falling into each other’s arms in the dim light, and slow dancing around the kitchen.  I don’t dance.  But I did.  And it felt so good that my mind captured it like the rare prize that it was, and beautifully stored it in sensurround. […]

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