From Hot Flashes, Power Surges, and Private Summers

Yes, I'm in my prime darling: fifty, fit, and fabulous!
Goddess alert! The original goddess, the real O.G. on
the way to my second life. Celebrating all the things I
could do now that I couldn't do at twenty:

1. I've learned to shop. I know how to stock my cupboards with solid food.
2. I've stopped buying and wearing cheap shoes.
3. I can feed a family with a can of tuna, a cup of rice, some dried beans and a cup of flour. I make a bad-assed bread pudding, biscuits from scratch, and I can make cornbread so good it would make you wanna holler.
4. I know how to take myself on vacation.
5. I know how to save fifteen cents when I only got a quarter.
6. I can recognize a loving sweet man at fifty yards, because some honeys do and some honeys don't. And I can tell the difference.
7. I've learned how to love myself, my mother, my daughter, my sisters and to embrace all women openly. Yes honey, I am the queen of know-how. A descendant of making a way out of no way. I refuse to be in the world and in the way.

Rhodessa Jones