I suppose all of us (over the age of 40) wonder at times what we “might of been”. We wonder if others think what Rocky Balboa’s coach did – “he coulda been a contender”<\/a>.<\/p>\n I wonder if I could have been a Mrs. Landingham<\/a> or a Miranda Priestly<\/a>? What choices could I have made to be one of the Celtic Women<\/a> (other than needing to be Irish of course) or sing like Karen Carpenter<\/a>? Could I have found my inner voice and expressed something creative like C.S. Lewis <\/a>or Ansel Adams<\/a>?<\/p>\n It doesn’t really matter now, but I wonder because I want to give good advice and solid guidance to my children as they make decisions that will change the chorus of their lives. A look back lets me see some missed opportunities. Some I had no control over, but others I did. Don’t misunderstand, I don’t live a life filled with regret. But sometimes I wonder . . .<\/p>\n It’s probably too late to be Karen Carpenter, but maybe I’ll take another look at C.S. Lewis and Mrs. Landingham . . .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I suppose all of us (over the age of 40) wonder at times what we “might of been”. We wonder if others think what Rocky Balboa’s coach did – “he coulda been a contender”. I wonder if I could have been a Mrs. Landingham or a Miranda Priestly? What choices could I have made to be one …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7zbKo-N3","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sheilascribbles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3041"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sheilascribbles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sheilascribbles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sheilascribbles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sheilascribbles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sheilascribbles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3041\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sheilascribbles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sheilascribbles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sheilascribbles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}