My last post was April 2017 and wow it’s been a crazy (almost) 5 years. I am not sure where to start. My daughter started high school, graduated from high school and is now a freshman in college, yikes. Covid. I have watched our country change drastically. The vitriol, the divisiveness, an insurrection and the roll back of women’s rights. The rise of Tik Tok. Will anyone read a blog anymore? Since my last post I have been to Utah, Spain, San Miguel de Allende, Dominican Republic, Tokyo, Thailand, San Francisco, India, Africa, Paris, London, Florida and Montana. Obviously none of that travel happened during Covid lockdown, I was masked up, binging Netflix, group texting my girlfriends memes, zooming, puzzling and baking. Unfortunately two of our dogs, Ella and Luna passed away. We got a new Covid rescue pup named Yoda and we still have our Frenchie Gizmo.  I ran three half marathons and the NYC marathon in 2021. Both of my stepsons got married and we have grandchild due in May. That’s about 5 years in a nutshell.

I started this blog when I was looking for something to do that combined my love of writing and pushing myself to get out of the house and take advantage of living in NYC.  A little about myself for the newcomers I have been a stay at home mom for 18 years.  If you would have asked if that was to be my path in life I would have said no but then my father passed away suddenly a month before my daughter was born in 2004 and something in me shifted. I wasn’t sure that being a mother was the right path for me either. Being nervous about being a good mother, stepmother and losing my father took a toll on me mentally.  Luckily I was in therapy.  I spent 18 years taking Olivia to mommy and me classes, sitting on boards of directors, being involved in my daughter’s school, volunteering, cheering for her while she played sports and getting her ready to embark on the next stage of her life.  I have never regretted the choices I made but now we are empty nesters and I find myself at a crossroads again.  People ask me all the time, what are you going to do now and I have no fucking idea. I am almost 54, the same age my dad was when he passed away. That freaks me out a bit. My husband and I are adjusting to a life without kids at home. We have decisions to make about what our new reality looks like and honestly sometimes I am paralyzed with uncertainty thinking about the future. I don’t see myself going back to work full time, unless I can do something fun. Is it too late to become a PA on a TV or movie set? Should I go back to school? And for what? Should I start a podcast? Everyone is doing it but what if I fail? So many questions and no answers. So I think I’ll start up my Museum Blog again with some life sprinkled in.  Maybe the answers to all these uncertainties will come but either way I’ll see some great art and hopefully you’ll get something out of this too.  Stay tuned because I visited the Egyptian Museum in Cairo last month.