Ellen Wood

I didn’t care for it. It was tedious.

I’m 83 years old. I know the name Taylor Swift but I don’t know even one of her songs. The documentary is not the kind I usually watch but for some reason I felt drawn to watch it. Magnificent! What a brave woman! I was a 1950s gal, one of the top students in a high school class of over 200, got pregnant in my senior year and the college scholarship was withdrawn. I married, raised four kids, husband couldn’t hold a job so I had to go to work. I got a job in a bank in advertising, zoomed to the top, only female executive, SVP of Marketing. I loved my job and my staff but it was difficult the way some of the men treated me. Chairman of the board called me “Honey”. But I reported to the CEO who let me do outrageous ads, won five national awards and selected as National New Product Development expert for banks in 1982, spoke at the American Bankers Convention. I’m now an author writing about how to grow younger with body, mind, spirit practices blah blah. All to say I’m so proud of Taylor for her part in keeping women from going back to the 1950s. I support the March for our Lives kids with donations. As Taylor says: Only the Young!