What a Woman Might Do When She Turns 60

Here's a dozen of what a woman might do (one or some) when she turns 60...

1. Go ahead and buy yourself what you've always wanted: a '57 Thunderbird convertible.

2. Treat yourself to a double hot fudge sundae piled up in a frosty aluminum dish with cumulus clouds of whipped cream sprinkled with almond chips and topped off with a maraschino cherry, instead of the same old boring birthday cake with icing and candles.

3. Go in style and buy yourself a share in a studio boxseat up high above the Mavericks game, so you'll never have to settle again for sitting behind the backboard/net.

4. Have your hairdresser cut you some cute bangs again like you had as a schoolgirl.

5. Get your bod out to a nearby Class 3 automatic firing range in the country and pay to crank out some serious rounds on a real-live machine gun or burn something up like a wrecked car frame with a flame-thrower!

6. Bring home a cuddly little puppy to have and to hold and to keep....Ahhhh!

7. Put on the record/CDplayer your complete repertoire of Billy Joel songs: all 13 studio albums, 59 singles; kick back with some complementary bubbly (even if it's 7-UP).

8. Rise early and put on a baseball cap, get out on the trail and walk the Lake. Make it one of those lively brisk ones with a pace (not a casual stroll like most times), shoulders back, show 'em you still got it, girl...grinning sarcastically at the youngsters racing by on their asinine runs and winking, too, at the old men sweating, struggling, and puffing as you pass them.

9. Go ahead and go up to the church where you worship after hours unannounced and let yourself in quietly (every member has a key to the building). Restock the Visitor's cards and offering envelopes on the back of the pews. You might spend some time sorting out the song books/hymnals to put them in their proper place; pick up the gum wrappers and scribbled pieces of paper trash on the carpet floor left from the last service.

10. Rent on Netflix and watch Andrei Tarkosky's 1966 Soviet film masterpiece, Andrei Rublev, the haunting saga loosely based on the life of the 15th-century Russia's iconic painter. I mean watch it from opening screen to credits...all 205 "wonderful" minutes in Russian with English subtitles! 

11. Reserve the carousel at the amusement park for you only, so that you can merry-go-round all you want on any horse or carriage and not have to get off when it stops.

12. Plan a special dinner with a childhood/schooldays bud, spending the evening together in laughter and in talking about the days gone by. Have some pie instead of the traditional  boring birthday cake with icing and candles. What's most important is hearing your dear friend say that you are as beautiful a person now as you were then, when they knew you as a young girl.