Memories

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Written for https://mymindmappings.com/2025/06/06/fowc-with-fandango-young/ and https://ragtagcommunity.wordpress.com/2025/06/06/rdp-friday-nostalgia/

Inspired by https://ruthblogshere.wordpress.com/2025/06/07/the-generational-conveyor-belt-of-life/

Ruth Blogs here spoke about looking forward to retiring, and I am exactly the same. Reading other posts, and nostalgia helps your memories push into the future.

I’ve been working from age sixteen. During my younger years, I worked as a typist. One month later, I lost the job. My typing skills weren’t as good as I thought. My experience of a plethora of roles; cafe cashier, another office, DIY store (I shared life with like-minded friends), postwoman (from twenty-two to my early forties) and, for two decades, a teaching assistant.

My marriage almost thirty-eight years ago, and it seems impossible I was barely twenty when we sealed the deal. Two children and two grandchildren later, my life is totally different. The technology has changed, from having a black and white television in my room, record players, and video recorders, to surround sound, downloading music, and multiple channels to choose from.

Not to mention Artificial Intelligence.

Through it all, I have been writing; my first handwritten story when I aged twelve. Always wanting to write, I self-published at forty, ‘‘Sticks and Stones’’, I wish I understood the scammers out there. I spent too much money on substandard promises, rather than finding an excellent editor. In my novel, ‘‘It Won’t Happen Again’’, My perfect match, she supported me in a way I am so grateful for. Over coffee, she helped me understand a book’s construction included more than just grammar. From my virtual reality play ‘‘The Kingswood Beast’’, to having a poem in an anthology, it is definitely my happy place. Along with volunteering at my local theatre, and watching many brilliant shows.

I may turn sixty this year, but I sense it won’t slow me down.

Published by writerravenclaw

I am a fifty something mother of two grown up children, and one beautiful grandchild. I have been married for nearly thirty-four years. My first book was published ten years ago. I wrote my book Sticks and Stones because of my experience of being bullied at school.

15 thoughts on “Memories”

  7. It certainly won’t Diana it’s a whole new world and after a while you will wonder where on earth you found the time to go to work! .

    We have lead similar lives I left school at 15, married at 17 , after meeting hubby at 13! Mum a week short of my 20th birthday …three lads and two grandsons later I am busier than ever! Sixty will not slow you down age is all in the mind! I am 12yrs older than you and not slowed up yet 🙏😊😊💜💜💜

    Enjoy your life 💜💜

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