10/31/2007

not so girlish anymore?

Yesterday I was telling someone the URL for my blog and all of a sudden I felt sheepish. Pilgrim_girl_? What am I thinking? I'll be 40 in a few years, for crying out loud! Is it time to let go of the girl and become something else? Something more mature and scholarly-sounding?

BTW, I think pilgrimwoman sounds dorky. Waaaaay too puritannical. I could just be pilgrim, but that's a bit vanilla-ish. Your ideas?
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jana said...

gs:
I agree with you in so many ways! The rub for me is that I don't want to be one of those women who is forever denying their age or yearning to be/look younger.

I don't dye my hair, I haven't had any cosmetic surgery and I don't wear makeup ('cept on Halloween). Not that I diss those who do these things, but they are my way of saying "World, I am not afraid of my age." Perhaps the pilgrimgirl moniker is one way in which I continue to assert my youth(fulness)??

8:12 AM
gs said...

==The rub for me is that I don't want to be one of those women who is forever denying their age or yearning to be/look younger.==

I don't think you're getting Satchels' drift: You cannot deny your age or yearn to be younger than you age when you don't know how old you are.

==Perhaps the pilgrimgirl moniker is one way in which I continue to assert my youth(fulness)??==

There you go again: You do not "assert" youthfullness (sounds so aggressive! :) Rather, the youthfullness which you already have expresses itself through the pilgrimgirl moniker.

Believe it or not, I am not an academic :) And you are a bubbling brook of youthfullness :)

2:45 PM
jana said...

Thanks gs. :)

I think I think too much about what other people think!

11:41 PM
molly said...

brainstorm:
'howdypilgrim'
'sojourner'
'peregrina'
'west or bust'
'into the west'
'wild westess'
'pilgrims progress'
'pilgrimess'
'pilgrima'
'pilgrimjana'
'lourdess pilgrim'
'pilgrims pride'
dont mind the silly

4:03 PM
molly said...

madam pilgrim

4:06 PM
molly said...

pilgrim warrior
xena pilgrim

4:08 PM
daisies said...

i like pilgrim girl .. i'll be forty in just over a year and i still love my girly girl side and i suspect i will at 50 and 60 and 70 and even 80 :) we are women, we are humans, we are wise and wizened and sometimes we are girls ...

11:58 PM
molly said...

yes, we should always embrace our childlike aspects. That is perfection.

12:22 PM
jana said...

thanks for all of the encouragement and for the great ideas, mck!

the possibility of a blogname change is going to the backburner for awhile as other projects/deadlines are imminent. but this isn't the last you'll see of this topic...

5:55 PM
gs said...

I like "sojourner"!

5:30 AM

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