Milestone birthdays, 50th or 60th, are significant. Just 100 years ago, the life expectancy for a woman was 54, and for a man, it was 48. Now, as I ponder my Prom Dresses Online Sale imminent 60th birthday, 10 years ago seems like decades, and it raises the specter of mortality and bucket lists.
One of my bucket list items is living near water. Not a rippling pond, or a flowing river, but a sea that ebbs and flows with the moon and pulsates with the northeast wind.
I want the big water of Lake Michigan. Specifically the state’s Door County side. In the winter the waves crash into the limestone cliffs Enchanting Gorgeous Two Piece Sherri Hill Prom Dress Style 51127 and the spray coats everything in its grasp with a veneer of glistening ice. In the cool summer, the humid air is heavy with the scent of cedar trees and shady moss-floored woods.

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This is the lake and land of my childhood. At the tip of Door County is the island where my grandfather was born in 1898. In the early 1900s, his family moved to Chicago, but his heart remained on Washington Island. Eventually he bought land and built a home on the island’s northern coast. Although none of my family lives on Washington Island now, it’s remained in my heart, as my connection to family roots.
A few months ago, a reporting job opened at the Door County Advocate. Since the newspaper is part of the USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin, the same group that includes the Marshfield News-Herald, I saw opportunity beckoning. I could continue a job I truly enjoy Sherri Hill 51016 Long Halter V Neck Fitted Prom Dress 2017 plus live close to Lake Michigan.

Tick that off the bucket list — my last day at the News-Herald is Friday. But this is opportunity tinged with the bitter bite of leaving home.
Twenty years ago, I moved to Marshfield from Salisbury, Maryland, when my husband wanted to move back to Wisconsin. Marshfield was not on my list of places to live — small town, no water and winter windchill factors plummeting below zero.
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