Who's Counting?

I just celebrated another birthday, no, observed another birthday, no, was forced by law to add year to my age due to another birthday.

I am now 51. I have been alive for 18,631 days (including 13 Feb. 29ths and three days since my April 10 birthday) and have taken over a half million breaths of air.

I have been married 7.798 days or 21 years four months five days of my life and been a mom for 19 years, three months and 27 days.

I have been out of high school for 33 years (yikes!) and out of college for 29 years. Wow! time has flown by!

The year 1959 was a grand year! Besides me being born, and all my amazing other 51-year-old friends, there were many events that happened in that year. Fidel Castro assumed power of Cuba and Alaska and Hawaii became states. Mary Ann Mobley was named Miss America - she is now 71 years old - and Buddy Holly (and his pilot Altan Roger Peterson) were killed in a plane crash. Frank Sinatra won his first Grammy Award in 1959 and some movies to see were "Some Like It Hot", "North by Northwest", "Ben-Hur" and , Anatomy of "Room at the Top". Popular singers were Doris Day, Frank Sinatra, Connie Francis and Ella Fitzgerald

World population was 2.9 billion as compared to the approximate 6.8 trillion today.

Costs of 1959 make me laugh - a house -$30,000; Average income - $5,016; Ford car - $2,132-$3,979; milk - $1.01; gas - 25 cents; bread - 20 cents; postage stamp - 4 cents; movie ticket - $1.

The Boeing 707 Jet Airliner came into service and Barbies hit the market.

My Partners in Excellence partners in Alta made me a birthday sign and gave it to me when I visited there on Friday. They were all curious to know my age. "29?," said one. (I wish!) "60?," said another (on some days I feel like it.) They didn't seem to think that 51 was old. And I don't either. It just sounds old.