June 2008

If you’re going to BlogHer…

06.30.2008

…better wear some flowers in your hair.  Oh, right city, wrong century.  Whatever– As I was saying, if you’re going to BlogHer’08, do come and hang with us at the MidLifeBloggers meetup.  It’s Friday, Day One, right after lunch.  This Room of Our Own will be a good place to unbutton your pants, if you [...]

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Adventures at Midlife: You’re going out looking like that?

06.24.2008

by Ms Meta of MetaFootNotes ByJane read my recent Dr. Martens blogpost, and challenged me to take a broader look at fashion for older — and often, um, broader — women. HA! Like I have anything original to say about THAT. Just try googling the topic and you’ll find endless screens of advice. A few [...]

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Climbing that Ladder to a Satisfying MidLife

06.22.2008

by Karen Batchelor of Midlife’s a Trip I used to think I was on the proverbial “ladder of success”.  I had the corporate job that many people dream of.  But I wasn’t living in sync with my life purpose and values and my personal life was shoved into a corner.  I had this nagging feeling [...]

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Average Jane Is Never Too Old to Rock and Roll If She’s Too Young To Die

06.19.2008

by Celeste Lindell of Average Jane The fact that I paraphrased my post title from a Jethro Tull song probably tips you off that I’m past the age of being mistaken for the next teen sensation. Be that as it may, I’ve never given up my passion for music – particularly hard rock. I sing [...]

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Blogging Platforms – Which Is Right For You?

06.18.2008

by Janis Smyth of Jan’s Sushi Bar So you want to blog.  Good for you!  Blogs are fantastic things; they’re a wonderful and enriching experience for those who write them and can be entertaining, funny, silly, informative, thought-provoking or touching for those who read them – often all at once. Starting a blog isn’t hard, [...]

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Announcing: Three New Features

06.17.2008

Starting tomorrow and on a regular basis, they will be: Blogging, Computers, and the Whole Damn Thing Janis Smyth of Jan’s Sushi Bar will be doing a series of posts designed to help all of us, at whatever stage we are, become more comfortable in this world of IT and Web 3.0. Get your questions [...]

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Lawsy mercy, where are my glasses? or why aren’t my arms longer…

06.13.2008

by Janie of MidLifeSlices Will wonders never cease? Along with menopause, hot flashes, dryness in places you don’t want to be dry, and belly rolls, comes the loss of eyesight or at least your reading eyesight. I keep going back to the eye doctor and trying contacts but they don’t cut it so instead of [...]

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Sex and The City: Does It Work as a Midlife Tale?

06.11.2008

by Ms Meta of Metafootnotes ByJane, the Godmother of MidLifeBloggers, whacked tapped me gently with her magic wand, and I am called to do her bidding. Says she, of the film debut of Sex and the City: The Movie, “I keep coming across all these comments about how Carrie’s in her ’40s and Samantha’s in [...]

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How can you tell the difference between a midlife crisis and shaking the dust from your feet?

06.09.2008

by The Duchess, of Duchess Omnium I guess my bare details look like a classic case of the former. Two years ago I put my house in rural Oxfordshire, my home for 23 years, on the market. Returning from a consolatory weekend in Paris (oh poor, poor pitiful me), I wept when I saw the [...]

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