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Baby Boomer

Thoughts on Life

by Kay~Kacey on 6/27/2009

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The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.  ~James Matthew Barrie

Allow me to indulge in some of my baby boomer thoughts for a brief moment, okay?

In my twenties I thought I had my whole life plotted out. I’m a planner, what can I say? It sure hasn’t turned out like I expected. Not. At. All. But it’s a good life, I’m very thankful for that.

I have an amazing, caring husband and 5, count ’em, FIVE boys. Never thought I’d be the mother of five boys! I have The Love Nest to escape to. My photography, that I took up after college–but let drop after the boys were born–has taken me in new directions I’d never imagined. This blog has been become such a tremendous part of my life, along with all of you, my blogging friends.

Life doesn’t follow our carefully planned out course. Our kids throw us curves. Life will push us towards paths we had no idea were even there. Bad stuff happens. Good stuff happens. The book of life we thought we were writing turns into a whole different novel. I wonder where the next fifty years will take me?

Artistic and Creative

by Kay~Kacey on 6/16/2009

Can you stand another post about growing my hair out?? I can ALMOST pull it back into a pony tail now. Seriously. A year and 3 months later!!

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Notice the clever pink hair elastic matches my shirt. I’m always coordinated like that. Honest. Really…

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Okay, honestly, it usually looks like this. All falling down and slightly messy artistic and creative. Yep, I’m into my artistic and creative hair length now. What do you think? Does it sell?? :mrgreen:

Never Too Late

by Kay~Kacey on 5/22/2009

So, I might be a baby boomer, but I decided it’s never too late to have a new career, right? Remember back awhile ago when I talked about starting up a portrait photography business? I even shared some shots from a photo shoot I went on with some other local photographers.

Now I first learned on a film SLR camera right after college…so it’s been a long time. But I never really, really took off with it until I bought a digital SLR a few years ago. I do love photographing almost everything I see…as evidenced by the variety on this blog. But I’ve found that I truly enjoy photographing people.

So, resolutely putting aside my age…I decided to purse a new career. Portrait Photography. I’ve been busy setting up all the legal side of it. Licensing & registering with the state. Setting up sales tax stuff. Getting insurance. Building up my portfolio. Figuring out pricing, contracts, model releases, Etc, etc.

So, now is the time where you chime in and say it’s never too late to start a new career, okay? I could use a bit of support here!

I, of course, will let you know when I go live. But in the mean time…look at this…
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My first junk mail addressed to my new company! :toofunny:

I guess I’m almost official, huh?? 😉