Squidoo Happenings

On The Mend - my daughter

I became a Squidoo contributor, in the "Aging Gracefully" niche. See the badge in the sidebar?

 I had to break momentum when my daughter's medical emergency required my support. She is fine, now, but I took a week or so to help take care of my grandchildren. I didn't feel she needed me for actual tasks as much as emotional support, since she recovered quickly.

 I'm a little slow to hit my stride, so it will take awhile to get back in the saddle, but life doesn't wait for us. I have always had my family as my top priority- although they don't see it that way at times. I did think of some ways to expand my niche... and will likely have a writing Marathon, which is the topsy-turvy way I go about things.

Look for Aging Gracefully

Squidoo contributors are "Giants" who volunteer to create a niche of interest in chosen topics. I find them very active on Google plus- too active, really. They have some of the old "Squidoo Angel" privileges of boosting lenses. I don't like to over use social media to promote too much of my own work - people get bored with you. I should be a little more social, though.

 I have done little of that. But then... as I said I was on a hiatus. The first trip to the South was to visit my children and grandkids, but my one daughter wasn't well. Then I returned home to Ohio, only to have the call and turn right around back for another week's stay.

 Isn't this a part of aging gracefully though?

Healing and strengthening relationships, helping out the younger generation in ways we wish we had been supported when at that stage in life?

 I think so.

Watch in this blog for the updates on lenses that become part of growing this topic as a niche in Squidoo.
One lens asks What Is Your Beauty Secret? Hopefully there are lensmasters who have tried some of the products listed and want to review them!
Another is "Just What the Doctor Ordered"