brendabowers
brendabowers
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Bio
A brief listing about who I am.
My passion is ...blogging at this time. But I have always been passionately involved in what I am doing at any given time in my life.
I know too much about ...Nothing! Nothing at all. There is always a new shinning treasure to find even when walking pathways you have walked before.
My parents always told me ...My first word was "Why". And nothing has changed over 66 years so I suppose my last word on Earth and my first word in Heaven will be "Why" too.
My childhood ambition ...Never had an ambition. My son came to me when he was 18 and told me he didn't know what he wanted to do so he was going into the Army. I assured him that was okay because at age 46 neither did I know what I wanted to be when I grew up.
My favorite memory ...Have you a week or two to listen?
Why I write ...It's fun. And I have so much I want to say, so much I want to teach the young about what I have learned so they may not make the same mistakes. And they needn't fear learning from me and not making the mistakes I made because there will still be many left that can be theirs alone.
What I am reading/watching/listening to ...newspapers and blogs from everywhere. The Internet has opened the world to me!
My first job ...My own business at age 8 was selling Christmas cards when out of school in the summer and then making deliveries in November just in time to get out for Christmas.
My best moment ...here and now. This is why I call my blog: And So I Go: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
My inspiration ...The sun in the morning and the moon at night, and everything made by God that their light shines upon.
Now more specific info about the Opinionated Old Broad:
• Apr. 28, 2006 - Good Things: Retiring to Greensboro and Beginning Blogging
I suppose introductions are called for here so here goes: I'm retired with a body 64 years old, but a mind that is still somewhere in the "30 somethings". Years ago a much older friend told me much the same thing and I really didn't understand her since my mind had aged with my body. But, at a point the mind stops and the body continues on it's way to aging, i.e. falling apart! So now I finally understand what Mary Margaret was telling me. Anyhow, I am retired with and old body, a young mind and a computer, now what should I do with this combination? Blog, of course.
I will explain the title of my blog since it conveys so much of what I want to say and do with the rest of my life not only this blog: And So I Go: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow. I chose this title because we are all today an anthology of who we were yesterday, and tomorrow will reflect the additional scars and laugh lines added today.
When I first began my blog it was with MSN Spaces and my intent was to just tell stories of my life, my family and the eleven years my husband and I lived and traveled on the back roads of North America. We came off the road and settled in Greensboro, North Carolina because we fell in love with the city the first time we were here in 1991. We are retired and this will be our last home. Anyhow, if I had done as I had planned I would have been a old lady reminiscing and would have come to no one’s notice. But I would have missed knowing and talking with and joking with some really fantastic people here in Greensboro. The people who make up Greensboro’s blogosphere. And so I do not regret at all learning about and joining Greensboro101 and meeting one of the most patient, lovely men, Roch Smith Jr. who took an elderly lady who didn’t know what she was doing and lead her step by step thru the mechanics of blogging.
It was on Greensboro101 that I developed my present style. You see I reverted back to my old self (see profile), only now I am an opinionated older lady who speaks out about the things I see happening around me I don’t feel are right, or good, for the people of our city, county, country or world.
I was an activist for civil rights as a young college student, and that just began a lifetime of involvement with local government and social issues where ever I found myself living.
I choose to speak of controversial topics on my site. I know these are the topics that get one in a lot of trouble from time to time! The blogosphere can be a vicious place at times. People comment on your posts and sometimes they are simply nasty especially if they don't agree with your take on the issue. I think the nastiness is partially because of the anonymity of blogging, even to the extent of not having to use your real name if you choose not to, that allows some to speak more harshly than they would face to face. Consequently, I have had some knocks, and I have lost my temper and unleashed my rather wicked tongue a few times too. Then been terribly sorry about my bad behavior!
Far more often than not, I have been given encouragement. You may agree with me and that’s nice. Or you may disagree with me, and that is good because that means I have given you something to think about and forced you to formulate your own opinion on the topic. (You know what they say: you can take the teacher out of the school, but you can never take the teaching out of the teacher!) And whether you agree, disagree, like or dislike what I have to say please know that I am giving my thoughts and opinions sincerely and from the perspective of familiarity and experiences with the topic over a long lifetime.
This is not to say my views are correct by any means, it is merely to try to show you from what perspective I am viewing the present. The perspective of what was thought and done in the past so that you may be the wiser and perhaps be spared making the same mistakes.
I recently did an article on my blog about bloggers policing themselves as have several other bloggers. Joel Gillespie being a well respected person has often stepped in and tried to bring some civility to an on-line discussion. The blogging community can be a vicious place as I stated before, and which I found out very soon after starting to blog last September. It can also be very demanding . But other bloggers correcting your mistakes is a good thing and demands that a blogger be careful to check his/her facts before commenting. It should however be done with kindness. And, it must be done with the person correcting being absolutely sure of his/her facts also. I welcome all comments, corrections, disagreements and kudos. And you may send flowers if you are so moved, just for the Hey of it! Sincerely, Brenda Bowers
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