I have thought long and hard about what 50 means to me. Why is this? Am I having the cliche midlife crisis? Am I afraid that I am now officially old? Is it because in my youth, I could never picture myself as 50? I'm the kidder in the family, so my husband and kids are used to hearing me start my sentences this past year with, "Well, I'm 50" or "I'm turning 50, so I'm old" to which I get a chorus of "Mom, you're not 50 yet!
I know what I'm doing though, playing some kind of mental dance out in my head. Debunking it with my sarcasm, just in case I am suddenly "old" in six weeks. I don't feel any older, but I meet people in their 20s and 30s, and I find myself looking at their faces and thinking, wow they look young.
I have had, over the past two years, my own quasi midlife crisis before turning I closed down my PR business after 13 years two years ago. I surprised myself with how much I wanted to do this after so many years.
I said on more than one occasion , "PR is a young man's game" and meant it. I relished the idea of not answering to anyone, and being the boss of myself.
I devoted myself percent to my children who needed me. I considered my options, I wrote articles, I volunteered, I traveled, I spent precious time with my mother before she forgot who I was.
I walked away gladly and yet, I still asked myself all the requisite questions one does when you walk away from a lifelong career.
Did I play it out? Could I have accomplished more? Was there anything left undone? And, there was. Pull out your spray paint and camper conversions to celebrate. The Dodge B-Series vans were a prize for those who wanted to trick out their ride with customized parts to join the Dodge Van Clan, as well as those who wanted to cruise the country without having to pay for a motel.
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Andy Capp's fries debuted in , and they haven't changed much in the years since. The biggest development came in , just two years after they were first introduced, when Hot Fries made their way to shelves.
Today, both varieties are sold in the classic packaging featuring newspaper comic character Andy Capp on every bag. Effective as of January 2, , the final cigarette commercial was aired during an episode of The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson.
Until the early s, that is. Vice president Kamala Harris made waves at the June Democratic Presidential debate when she criticized now-president Joe Biden for opposing busing programs that she had benefited from in the s. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education is what made many of those programs possible. At the heart of the lawsuit were Vera and Darius Swann, who sued the Charlotte-Mecklenburg School District so that their 6-year-old son could attend the school closest to their home, which was integrated.
If Brown v Board of Education made integrated schools a right, Swann made them more of a reality. Greatly expanding upon a student film he directed at USC in [ PDF ], this cold look at a totalitarian future focuses on a lone worker Robert Duvall who attempts to break free from a system that enforces thought control and conformity through the use of police androids.
In February , they voted 2-to-1 to ensure that women could vote and run for parliament. It was a profound reversal in a short amount of time, and in , President Ruth Dreifuss became the first woman to serve as president of Switzerland, earning the office less than three decades after women secured the vote.
It started on September 9, , when—seemingly out of nowhere—prisoners suddenly began to commit acts of violence against the guards around them, and eventually gained control of an exercise yard. The prisoners took hostages and made demands for better living conditions, religious freedom, and freer communication outside the prison.
It ended in a bloody, poorly-executed attack wherein police dropped tear gas and fired rounds into the resulting fog; 29 inmates and 10 hostages were killed, while 89 others were wounded.
The earthquake in the northernmost area of Los Angeles registered a 6. In the late s, General Mills saw a market need in the worsening American economy and decided to release a line of boxed dinners meant to stretch the value of a pound of hamburger. Their fatal flaw according to the company was that these packaged dinners required more than one pan to make. In a signal of unmitigated success, more than one in four households in the United States bought the product in its first year.
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