Definition of a Late-Bloomer
Sela Ward, the actress, was quoted recently in Parade Magazine calling herself a ‘late-bloomer’ because she didn’t start acting until she was in her twenties. This, in itself, does not qualify her for a place in The Late-Bloomer Chronicle. I call myself a ‘late-bloomer’ because I went back to school late, started teaching late, and started writing even later. This, in itself, does not qualify me for a place in The Late-Bloomer Chronicle. But I do qualify because…
- I had a Life as a Sleeping Beauty.
- I experienced an Unexpected Jolt.
- I am Awakening to myself and what I can be.
After reading the basic criteria, you may easily fit your life into these three stages, but like me, your life may not be so easily divided. For example, you may not have been jolted out of your world as a ‘Sleeping Beauty’, it may have been a gradual thing, the jolt, more like a nudge—the last straw. Also, the jolt may have placed you in a bad place—the dusk before the dawn—I call mine the ‘dark ages’. And you may find it difficult to separate this period from the moment you started moving on.
Maybe you will need to read more of my blogs, including Awakening is a Good Word and spend more time on the form I have included. Whether you submit your life or not, you will likely benefit from thinking about it in, what might seem, a calculated fashion. You may like what you see—if not—well, that’s up to you…
I find your offer, for women to explore and share their new found wisdom, very inviting. I wish you the best of luck.
Kim
Then write your story. I’m having trouble getting stories because seems most women don’t think they have stories until they start writing them. One woman told me she cried all the way thru–and she doesn’t have a dramatic story, just a good one. I think it was the going back. Thanks for coming around. Jean
Congratulations on your blog! You inspire me with your zeal.
My novel, Among Us Women, which you so kindly read and endorsed with your kean insight (on the back cover), is now in its 2nd edition.
I am a late bloomer with this career as an author. For 35 years I was an interior designer, mother, wife and now a grandmother. During the years I pursued my career I wrote short stories in my spare time and the novel is a compilation of some of the women’s stories taken from this endeavor.
If you want to know more, or just to say “hello,” write.
Joan Lerner
Great to hear from you, Joan. I am so glad your book is out and you are doing well with it. Great cover! I’ll recommend it to my daughter’s book club. So, do you have a story for me?