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Glenn Close Devil Wears Prada

September 8, 2011 | Author Cindy

What’s a middle aged woman to do?

To say I hate my job is a gross understatement. I am admistrative assistant. It is most mindnumbing experience of my life. When the pace was busier I was told I was doing an excellent job. I was busy, but bored. The job lacks challenge. My contempt for my position is beginning to show in my work. I have one member of the staff often confuses snide remarks as wit. Another feels it is her appointed duty to belittle every woman in the office. The senior partner feels Glenn Close’s caharacter in The Devil Wears Prada is someone to aspire.

I majored on writing in college. A bad marriage, and a hasty departure precluded me from finishing my education. Satan’s menion, aka my ex-husband, destroyed my writing samples. I exceled in all of my writing courses. I’m back were I started before school. What now?
Real writers know the difference between writing and spelling. I never claimed to be a great speller. That’s why there are grade school spelling bees.

A middle age woman should:

1. Own her situation as the product of her own choices and not blame others.

2. Exercise, the more the better. It increases your optimism so that you better deal with your current situation and give creative thought to improving upon it.

3. Be useful/helpful to others whether it is family, strangers or something in between. It will help get you out of the cramped cage your mind has become.

4. If you have children make sure their needs are well met including their need for independence.

5. Set aside time every day to read or to write.

Edith Wharton was a middle aged woman writer. Her work is wonderful. Maybe you would find a biography of a woman writer such as Ms. Wharton or others inspiring.

Mirandy/Cruella “The Lady and Her Dragons”