Happy birthday to me, I'm turning 40

I have lots of ways of describing myself:  wife and mother of two, technical writer, aspiring romance novelist, driver of a minivan, breast cancer survivor, a Yankee living in the South, and a woman turning forty tomorrow.

(On a side note, did you ever wonder why it's spelled forty and not fourty?)

I want to be blase about it.  Nonchalant.  Lots of people turn forty EVERY DAY.  I'm older.  I wouldn't say wiser.  And I wear glasses, just like any stereotypical 40 year old. ...