The golden years, the title of my blog. immediately brings to mind retirement years and beyond and yes Don and I fall into that category seeing we retired over 14 years ago and we are both into our seventies, but I am wanting the title to represent the whole of our lives. A blog. I can hardly believe I am even writing one and posting it on a computer network all this coming from someone who went to school with a pad of paper and a pencil. We never had computers (not invented) and even if we had a calculator we would have been forbidden to use them, considered cheating, so seeing my background and age why am I typing a blog.? I got the idea from my granddaughter Angie's blog. when I found that reading hers made it possible for me to keep in touch across the miles, to see pictures of the great granddaughters and to watch her family grow. What better way to reach out to all my family, a way to share even though miles separate us.
   Golden years just don't happen, you make them happen, it takes planning, the right frame of mind and it requires the right attitude. Things don't make you happy, you make yourself happy by how you face life. I hope you enjoy going with me as I share the past, the present and hope of the future, in other words "The  Golden Years"