The Inner Life of a Blogger
Mon, 26/07/10 – 11:45 | 17 Comments

BlogHer’10 is coming up next week and while MidLifeBloggers will not be there, we thought it important to offer this treatise on the psychodynamics of blogging for all the attendees….

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Our Bodies

What We See In The Mirror and How We Feel About It

Our Careers

The work that we do and that we wish we did

Our Minds

Our emotional, spiritual, and intellectual selves

Our Relationships

Mates, children, parents, siblings, friends

Our World

What we think about what’s happening outside our door

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May 30: An Ode to My Dead on Decoration Day
Sun, 30/05/10 – 17:36 | 27 Comments

You should know from the outset that my tongue is planted firmly in my cheek.  This post will not mention the decorated dead of America’s many wars.  Not that they don’t deserve it, but, hey, this is an ode to my personal dead. Read the full story »

Wednesday Writer’s Workshop: Commenting and Conversation
Wed, 26/05/10 – 14:38 | Comments Off
Wednesday Writer’s Workshop:  Commenting and Conversation

So here’s a short survey…just because I’m curious

1. I think Commenting on blogs is

a good way to get my two cents in

the best way to create a conversation with the blog author and others

a …

Wednesday Writer’s Workshop: Talking About Writing
Wed, 19/05/10 – 12:30 | 2 Comments

One of the perks of being a writer in Sacramento (and you had to ask, right?) is the monthly meetings of Writers Who Wine. I believe I may have mentioned this “Hail, fellow, how …

Wednesday Writer’s Workshop: On The Taking of Notes
Wed, 12/05/10 – 14:43 | 3 Comments

Inspiration is not only fickle; it creeps in on silent feet and leaves without saying goodbye.  How then are we supposed to grab and use its bounty?  Oh yes, writers take notes.   At least …

Leather Corsets + Midlife = Hello, Good Times!
Fri, 7/05/10 – 12:08 | 9 Comments
Leather Corsets + Midlife = Hello, Good Times!

It was an eye-opening evening for the both of us, witnessing my ownership of my sexuality.

Wednesday Writer’s Workshop: Writing About Your Parents
Wed, 5/05/10 – 13:52 | 3 Comments
Wednesday Writer’s Workshop: Writing About Your Parents

So it’s Mother’s Day this Sunday.  I know that because all of my magazines are full of Mom stories.  Mostly, they wax eloquent with a slight hiccough: “I love[d] my mom BUT.”  Jamie Lee Curtis …

Wednesday Writer’s Workshop: Finding your place in the blogosphere
Wed, 28/04/10 – 14:53 | 6 Comments

The appeal of blogging is that it’s a democratic arena;  you can blog about any topic, any field, any subject that hooks your attention.  While it is true that the more well-known blogs tend to …

Wednesday Writer’s Workshop: The First Question of Blogging
Thu, 22/04/10 – 13:23 | 15 Comments

To continue the conversation we began last month. I put to you then what I consider to be The First Question of Blogging:  Why do you want to blog?  Answer that, and while I …

Wednesday Writer’s Workshop: The Things We Carry
Wed, 14/04/10 – 12:52 | Comments Off

Have you ever read Tim O’Brien’s  novel, The Things They Carried?  It tells the story of a platoon of soldiers in the Viet Nam war through the things that they carried in the knapsacks.  I …

Wednesday Writer’s Workshop: Right Outta Nowhere
Wed, 7/04/10 – 12:35 | Comments Off

As promised, this is what I wrote in response to last Wednesday’s musical prompt.  And you? What did you write?
I got the Christine Kane CD at BlogHer’07, which happened not long after Dennis moved out. …

Immune Mediated Hemolytic Anemia: Not my dog’s best friend
Mon, 5/04/10 – 18:03 | 13 Comments
Immune Mediated Hemolytic Anemia: Not my dog’s best friend

If you’re the praying sort, or the meditating sort, or just the sort who will think good thoughts for a little dog who means the world to me–please do.