My west coast brother has informed me that today is "Spunky Old Broads Day" and also "National Dark Chocolate Day." Well, it goes without saying that I'm always happy to celebrate anything involving dark chocolate, but I needed to think about spunky.
At 81 I'm pretty sure that I qualify as an 'old broad' but I'm not so sure about being considered spunky, so I looked up the definition. It turns out that spunky means courageous and determined. It can also mean feisty, energetic and daring. There's a whole other meaning in the UK but I won't go in to that.
I have been daring, courageous and determined in my life. Moving to a town in upstate New York for a teaching job and tending bar when I ran out of money comes to mind.
Much more recently I think it took some courage to decide to remarry at the age of 79. Of course that may have taken more courage on my wonder spouse's part. I think we both were pretty spunky during our trip to Egypt last November, although I didn't ride a camel so maybe he was more spunky than I was.
All in all though, after giving it careful thought, I think that yes indeed I am a spunky old broad. I think I'll go eat some dark chocolate to celebrate.
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