Songs for the New Depression

I have always lived on the vanguard of the latest trends. And now as I enter the era of decrepitude, I find myself living the challenges and adventures of survival in New Depression (no really! It is going to be fun, you wait and see!)

Like many of my generation, I pioneered being a contract worker, a working mother, a self employed writer, had my credit go neutron bomb on me, faced and survived foreclosure, divorce and bankruptcy....and just when I thought I had enough to get by before going quietly into that good night...

my nest egg is smashed in the Bush Era Marketplace meltdown. How trendy of me.

I am really not bitter. I am just so excited to live in a constant suspense of insecurity waiting for yet another shoe to drop. And so I will use this humble little blog to chronicle my efforts to find inner peace and contentment in an effort to survive until I can collect social security.

In short: find a job. And maybe if I put enough appropriate tags on my posts, people googling---who are in the same position as I---will find my humble little blog, and participate in my NOT-A-PITY Party. We are looking for solutions here, but we are also entering unexplored territory.

And, at long last, we are on our own.


I was going to be very cool and embed Mother's Little Helper but a quick trip to YouTube found nothing from the Stones, and all the other covers suck.

So let me go out with this introductory posting by saying...

WHAT A DRAG IT IS, GETTING OLD.