What up? Hello, welcome to this thing called the weekly pep talk with my mom. This is like a really short

nugget of knowledge or thought to get your week started off right. You won't do this at any point,

but usually post this on Sunday nights and hope you enjoy it. A little something to think about with my mom,

call the pep talk right after this.

Don't look at me like I'm a suspect.

Kelly, rightly, Michelle, you don't believe him ghosts? No one shall leave until I find if the

living have been killed by the dead. A haunting and Venice directed by Kenneth Brenner, in cinemas now.

Do you ever think about where your life is going? I was having lunch with a friend this weekend and

she and I, she's my age and she's not really retired. She still works part time and is

very crafty and stays very busy with that, but we were talking about the phases of your life.

And we all go through those. Our 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s. They all look different. Every 10-year

phase of your life is very different in so many ways. And as you all know, I am soon going to

be 70 in September. And I'm thinking about, you know, what is the rest of my life look like?

What do I want to be in my 70s? What is it I want to do? I'm not sure. I'm not really sure.

I think that I still have a lot to offer and I definitely want to be of service,

so I'm contemplating what type of service that might be. I want to connect more with old

friends that I don't see as often as I used to, but we have remained friends and it's still

wonderful to get together. I need to do more of that. I want to entertain more. I want to have

people come to the lake, even though so many of my friends, because they live in town, it's an

hour drive, they act like I'm asking them to take a flight to the moon to come out sometime.

But even just to meet halfway for dinner, we just need to connect with other couples,

Gem and I do and do things like that. And what are some things that, you know, we enjoy that we

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