200 Three broads--200 Blogs!

Three Broads – 200 Blogs (from Glenne)

Well, dear friends and blog readers, we have come a long way. Apparently we have some “staying power” as well. This blog is number 200. As Savvy Trish said - in our first blog which hit the web on August 

4, 2014 --even though we have retired we have “unshared collective wisdom” which folks may enjoy. So over a fateful lunch (with no alcohol involved) we decided we would create a blog in which we would we wax poetic or speak mundanely on a given topic of our own choice.

We have addressed a very wide range of topics in nearly five years: exercise, shopping, the weather (I like cold, Trish and Frances prefer hot), books, trees, holidays, being left-handed (me), recipes, family, 

memories of first loves, theatre, travel, gardening, dogs, Canada geese, reality TV, movie, rummage sales, libraries, clowns, sports, genealogy, cemeteries, school uniforms, disasters, technology, frustration, pet peeves , and random thoughts.

Trish calculated our page views at over 100,000. Not too shabby. Also interesting is that while most of our readers are U.S. residents, the next highest demographic is Russia/Ukraine.  (Is this generated by Trump/Putin?--oh,

 Getty Photo from MSM 

just a wild thought!

We hope you have enjoyed some of our savvy words. No, we hope you have enjoyed many of our words and found them savvy.

Finding a new topic is sometimes tough. We want to entertain. We want to give you something to think about. We are all avid readers. I fear we may be the type who read the cereal box at breakfast. New ideas can arise ….

What topics can we think about addressing? A website called Branding Strategy Insider says societal changes that should be examined include: the power of sheer numbers of both Baby Boomers and Millennials--can they find common ground? how to effect cultural understanding among religions and races; examination of the evolving definitions of gender including LBGT and the #metoo movement.

These are some heavy, but extremely important topics. Not a day goes by that I don’t shake my head as I read a real newspaper (my trusty NY Times) or online local pages. It appears we had better start addressing these topics including climate change and the border wall. Notre Dame’s fire is certainly a sad, sad topic.  I thought about the possible 

Photo from American Society
 of Civil Engineers--
underside of bridge

causes of the fire and my mind went to the infrastructure of America’s roads and bridges. What’s the next disaster. 

We Three Savvy Broads are all near the same age. We have common interests and essentially agree on most big issues. None of us, however, deal only with our age group. We have friends of various ages, interests, and political outlooks. 

Frances, having been a section editor of a newspaper, is probably the bravest of us tackling current issues. Trish knows more history than I will ever know. I like humor. I find it everywhere. Going back to the border wall, I remember the South Park show where Americans (including the South Park cartoon gang--Eric Cartman, Stan, Kyle, and Kenny) were trying to keep the Hispanics from going SOUTH across the border. It was silly; it was funny; it made its point! This, too, is a subject worth discussion! 

I am a big Billy Joel fan. History could be taught with this song of his. This hard-hitting song addresses over 100 issues from the 1950s and 1960s. (I counted them!) And so many of them are still issues: Korea, birth control, Cuba, Lebanon, China, hijackings, cocaine, race, foreign debt, etc., etc., etc. I also think of Bob Dylan’s “There’s a battle outside and it is ragin’ / It’ll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls / For the times they are a-changin',."

200 blogs and more to come. Maybe it’s protest time again? What is moral? What is ethical? What is legal? Whew. I am causing myself anxiety. SO ENOUGH OF THIS. 

American life is not all a downer. It’s spring. It’s Easter weekend. 

The trees in bloom make our Shenandoah Valley look like a fairyland in pink and white and green. The Shenandoah Apple Blossom Festival® kicks off its 92nd year on April 26th for 10 days of fun, friends, parades, and parties. I must stay positive. We’ll all three stay “savvy” and hope to keep you entertained.

Glenne