Fortyish Women

Johanna Baynard
2 min readJan 7, 2024

I am not sure what is happening with women in their 40s, but it looks good. It puts me in mind of myself at that age and I remember it as a time of extreme freedom. That freedom so hard to attain, was from myself. I’ve always believed I am an unusual creature and never gave my thoughts, any thought.

BB self portrait

I am looking now at my daughter’s generation, my stepdaughter and their high school groups and I am seeing the same thing in them that I…

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Johanna Baynard

Dedicated activist for economic equality. Baby Boomer. Wife, mother and blogger: Life According to Johanna, johannayorksr.com and themammablog.com