May 2008

The Upside of Recession

Meghan Daum, writing in the LATimes, has managed to find a bright side to the growing recession, with its flattened house market and $4/gallon gas prices: home repairmen who come immediately, and California’s empty freeways. Sure, things are going to get ugly very soon. Layoffs will increase, the housing market will go from dismal to […]

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Choices: how do you choose when you’re in midlife?

by Karen Batchelor of Midlifes A Trip Several weeks ago on a great sunny Saturday afternoon, I went to the zoo with my sister and 4 year old niece who I call “the Peanut”. The plan was to let the Peanut hang out at the playscape for a while and then see the animals. Nice […]

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Marble Mania: Extreme Brain Gym

by Carol of A Different Nest As Carrie in Sex and the City used to say at the beginning of an episode “Have you ever wondered why…” . Well, have you ever wondered why people will pay good money for subscription online programs to sharpen their brains as they age, like My Brain Trainer, while […]

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Take Care

by Denise, of Not What It Seems I grew up with all of my family, on both sides, living in the same town, some on the same street. It was a very small place, a hamlet. If your family wasn’t there to take care of you, someone who had changed your diapers at a firehouse […]

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Happy Anniversary, Honey—I think

Last week was the 25th wedding anniversary of Lynn, who blogs at After The Dust Settles. This is the post she wrote the day before. Does it hit you the same way it hit me? Her longing for her husband to mark in some, any, memorable way the day that they married is palpable. It’s […]

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