We need more role models. And we need to become role models. The living breathing with a pulse, in real life kind. Once we hit 60 lets not fade away. Lets not be invisible. Lets be the pains in the ass we were meant to be!

I wish I had known a Mrs Maisel when I was growing up.There were enough people around me to teach me what the norm was. But no one to teach me how to break out of the norm if I wanted to, or if like Mrs Maisel, I had no choice. The importance of knowing you can survive being different is an amazing thing.

The TV show, The Marvelous Mrs Maisel, is great. It might inspire young girls, even if they don’t get the jokes. Especially the holocaust jokes. Women need inspiration as much as young girls. So maybe it’s up to me to be that inspiration. Helen Mirren, Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin for example, are the larger than life role models. We need them too, but we can’t always relate to their larger than lifeness.. We need life sized versions of role models.

Me in my overalls that are a no for women my age!

The fashion world tells us what we can and cannot wear. Cosmetic companies promise anti aging. We are also told we can get rid of the grey, or in my case white. It’s all smoke and mirrors. Fuck that shit. Aging is by far better than not aging. Use creams and hair dyes (I do), just don’t buy the lie they are selling . You are aging and it’s not going to stop for any cosmetic. So how do you age well? If you are not having fun, you haven’t aged well. Fun is the only secret ingredient we need.

Woke!

I reached 60 and I woke up. It actually started at 50. I realized a part of me had been sleepwalking. The part with all the titles, wife,mother, job. I’m still a mother and a wife but the job description changed! I’m less tied down by it. I’m back to being more of just me. The me I was before I was a mom or my job. I can see that magical place called retirement from here. This is an exhilarating time because the element of the unknown is on the horizon. What will I do for the rest of my life?

I feel an odd mix of young with the added plus of knowing now what I know now! I think I’ll start this journey by naming my reality show The Amazing Ms W! Don’t miss it!

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