Roller Coaster

When I learned that I had to manage a personal blog for a class that I am taking, I spent a good deal of time thinking about what I should name it. Since this blog going to be about me, my life, and my experiences, I wanted its title to be as honest as possible. I wanted the name to fit. I remembered that my husband(whom I've been married to for nearly a year) often reminds me that our lives and our relationship are like a roller coaster. We have our ups and downs. Sometimes its thrilling and other times it can be, well...nauseating. I guess its a good thing that we both like roller coasters! When I sat down and thought about roller coasters, I remembered that when I was a small child growing up in the New Orleans area, my grandparents used to tell me stories about the old Pontchartrain Beach. Pontchartrain Beach used to be something like an amusement park and there was a roller coaster called The Zephyr. My grandparents also used to take me to City Park in New Orleans, where there was a section for children called Storyland where there were "talking" life sized animals that told stories, a carousel, a ladybug roller coaster, and a few other rides. My favorite was the ladybug roller coaster which I called "The Zephyr" because for some reason I assumed that all roller coasters were named this.  As I grew older I learned that I was wrong in my assumption. There was just that one Zephyr on Pontchartrain Beach that demolished before I was born. At least there was just the one until the year two-thousand when Jazz Land New Orleans(later Six Flags) was built. Inside Jazz Land there was a section called Pontchartrain Beach that they built to commemorate the Old Pontchartrain Beach and with it they built another Zephyr. It was a huge let down as their recreation did not by a long shot live up to the version that I made up in my head. But nonetheless, it was pretty cool.   So, when I was thinking of roller coasters, I thought of the Zephyr, but I didn't really know what the word Zephyr actually means. When I looked it up I found this: noun- a slight wind (usually refreshing). And that's my life. Sometimes the wind is at my back, sometimes its in my face, but usually, its refreshing.