IT'S MY BIRTHDAY!!!

9 June 1961
(first birthday)

 Okay, so I've changed a little in the last 50 years.  Make that, a lot!!!  I cannot believe I am 50 years old today.  It just does not seem possible.  I do NOT feel 50, I do not look 50 (though if this is what I look like, then this must be what 50 looks like,) so there must be some kind of a mistake.  (However, the calendar and my mother say differently.)   Michael J. Fox, Johnny Depp and Natalie Portman also have birthdays today, so I am in good company.

I particularly like the quote I put on my Facebook page this morning:

"It takes a long time to grow young."

~Pablo Picasso

So, I will continue to grow young, even as my actual age may say something a little different.  Like they say, it beats the alternative!!!