Happy New Year. Oh, did I say that already? I’ve been writing for so many different sites that I can’t remember who I’ve told what. Someone emailed me the other day to say she’d noticed I hadn’t posted in a while, and I wrote back in a huff, ‘yes I have.’ But then I looked and–surprise!–she was right.

Here are two words I learned this year:  quotidian and iteration. They are now my favorite words.  I use them whenever I can, even when it makes no sense.

I’m starting to read blogs again–I think. Suddenly I’m finding very funny people, very funny midlife people, very funny smart midlife people. Some of them are new to me, like Kirby Dunton of Kirb Appeal, who just started a new blog, Fifty is the New Thirteen, which is the one I’m lovin’ .  Some are on MidLifeBloggers Blogroll already. Like Tori Taff of BabyBloomr who’s been raising kids and eyebrows since 1992.

And speaking of the MidLifeBloggers Blogroll, I’d like to put it on a diet in 2011. Okay, maybe not a diet, but let’s give it a haircut.  Get rid of the split ends.  Make it a little more, oh I don’t know, up-to-date.  To that end, I’m asking you, all of you, you and you over there as well, to hit on the link, find your blog’s name, make sure all the information is current, and then come back here to tell me in a comment.  Or email me at jane(at)midlifebloggers(dot)com.  I’m going to prune that sucker down to the live wood (as I should be doing with my roses).

Oh, and I apologize for mixing my metaphors.

Image credit: Pruning Roses for Garden Display http://bexrose.org.uk