my legacy… a viral YouTube ‘vlog’ ?

My Legacy… a viral YouTube ‘vlog’

My Dad, my mom, myself, and my kids… all of my family. This is what matters most in my life. An amazing nana and a baba and aunts and uncles and on, and on, and on. It’s Father’s Day today, and my dad fought in the trenches in Italy in World War II so we could live free. Living in Canada, I’m so proud of us and our country, and I’m grateful for each day.

We started with seven of us kids, me being the oldest, and now we are down to three. Myself and the two youngest, wow… this is hard to digest. I realize my time is measured now, and I’m okay with this. It’s Father’s Day today, and it’s rainy and miserable. I should be in my condo pool (my usual morning routine, exercise), but here I sit contemplating my life. I should clarify here… what’s left of it :  )

Taking a long pause here to decide what I want to write about, it has come to me in a flash just now! I would like to be remembered as a happy, positive person. I’m thinking hmmm… I can hear “she doesn’t shut up,” “she has an opinion about everything,” “she thinks she knows it all” … omg now I’m getting depressed.

Do I really come off that way? I love my country, I hate tRunp, I love my family (most of them), everyone has a few outlaws, right? I would give my life for my kids, but I think everyone feels this way. We all want to be remembered, don’t we? I’m still missing my mom and my uncle Gary. I wish I could have had a last visit with my brother, one year younger than I (he passed away in January).

My own Nana was a very important person in my life, and I still dream of her being alive and well (weird, I know). But how will I be remembered? I still ache for my own nana’s unexpected passing. I have made sure I stress my passing as a natural event to my own grandkids. I want them to remember me as a fun nana and especially my love for them.

My little nieces and nephews were instructed to call me “oh Beautiful one” right from the start… lol. I’m not beautiful, but I wanted them to always remember me. They are married with kids of their own and still laughingly call me “oh beautiful one” not gonna lie here, I like it a lot :  ) I have no idea why this was important to me, and I still don’t know, but I do enjoy this moniker when they use it :  )

So, I’m aging quite a bit, still here and losing it somewhat; my memory is the pits (shit happens). We all worry about this dementia thing, me included, but everyone also says, “Well, I forget all the time as well”. This isn’t encouraging for me because they are old, too! Okay, something else is niggling at me, and now I know what I need to write about to ‘get it out there’.

I’m very proud of myself for everything I have accomplished since my divorce sixteen years ago. Finally finishing my memoir, Life and XXX After Sixty, published and up on Amazon all over the world, also in eBook. My pen name is clMargerate. Also, a couple of Too Lazy to Cook-books, with a couple of my food network friends/stars. My weekly blog here started in 2014 (thank you, Roy Porter).

Oh… I also have a couple of inventions I brought to market (no mean feat) but failed to promote/sell. Invisa-bibs tm and invisa-notes tm, 50 thousand each to be exact, we won’t even go there. Eventually, they will find a home, I’m sure (still figuring that one out). Lastly and most recently, there is a YouTube channel I started less than seven months ago. This one could be complicated, for my legacy… lol.

It’s called @asknana123 …  “Ask Nana Anything”. The reason I started this YouTube channel and also the reason behind my book was that I wanted women to know that there is life after menopause! My best life didn’t start until after I turned sixty (following my divorce). I NEEDED to share this amazing journey I was on with other women.

Long story short, a query coaxed outta my oldest granddaughter for my YouTube channel, landed me going viral!!!!! It was her question to me, “How old is too old to wear a thong?” I’m sure she thought it was very funny, and it was.  I answered it truthfully and to the best of my capabilities, coming from someone who used to wear thongs on my feet!

I knew nothing about podcasting or vlogs or YouTube channel stuff, but that all changed with that one going viral. So, it was mostly all males tuning in, and the older ones at that. I was somewhat dismayed and wondered how I could get the females instead, until I gave myself an attitude adjustment. Why was I discriminating against men? I now have over two thousand subscribers and over 1.6 million views!

And now getting to the point of why I’m writing here this morning, hmmmm. Okay, I have it figured out. Do I want this YouTube channel of myself to be a part of my legacy or to be remembered this way? Good question, eh? OMG…. do I? I’m only writing from my heart and what I know so far. I’m not an expert on anything, and that’s a fact! BUT, the fact is, I’m learning a lot in return from this channel, it’s really an eye opener on us old people, and I’m loving it as well.

There, I have my answer, and this is why I love writing so much.

Have a great day, everyone, and thank you for reading my blog :  )

copyright June 21st, 2026