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I AM GOOD

I am having so much fun being a model at age 82

Here is to number three report on my becoming an old lady model again after 66 years of no modeling. I was doing other things like getting engaged, marrying, having two kids, 4 grandkids, going back to school at age 33 and 8 months, graduating college at 39 with honor, taking up ballroom dance and competing with a professional coach and traveling to Virginia, Maryland, Kansas City, Kansas, New Jersey, Miami Beach Florida three years in a row and winning 58 trophies and medals.I did ballroom lessons, competitions and social dancing from age 43 until age 76.
So now after no modeling, I am doing hair modeling. That is my hair being shown on a website as a before the hair is done and after it is done and I am beautiful again. So it was fun, the first session last Friday and the photo will be published soon in a site that features hair artists as they are called and they will come to your home and do hairdos, makeup for weddings or affairs and manicures and pedicures. I am only involved in the hairdos.My favorite and only hair artist is Carmen Elena Oliva. She is my visiting special angel, not the ones who come to take care of housebound ladies, she is my special artist and she suggested I be her model.
Also have written eulogies for about six funerals and I write some words for a wellness educator who has wellness classes and he teaches them to be inspired with life as a senior and is Steven Behr Senior of Steilacoom Washington State.I have written and been published since I was 12 I write now for Fairfax Station Patch and now have to date 320 articles for them and about 1000 for other Patches.


Number three report is all about how much fun I had last Friday doing the photo shoot in my house and the pictures will be reproduced soon and it will be online and I will keep you informed if you are interested. I will blow the pictures up and have them made in one of the box frames about 16x20 and it is a self frame. Oh fame is coming my way again at 82, happy, healthy as can be and am a model for showing other seniors that life is good. When I ask my 11year old grandson how are you, he says
I AM GOOD. This is a good phrase to live by. I am good is our motto.
Elita Sohmer Clayman Fairfax Station Virginia July 25 2016 article is called I AM GOOD


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