August 2008

Old-school community service

08.28.2008

by Celeste Lindell of Average Jane Around 2001, a friend invited me to cook something to bring for dinner to the residents of a Ronald McDonald House. It turned out to be a service project of the Soroptimist Club, a businesswomen’s community service organization dedicated to improving the lives of women and girls. Soroptimist, which [...]

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Visual Artists: A Call For Submissions

08.27.2008

MidLifeBloggers continues to grow and evolve and become its own thing.  Right now the Orange Tent seems to be sheltering a lot of writers, and that’s good.  That’s the way I meant it to be.  But writing is only one things we blog about and it’s only one means of expressing the stuff of midlife.  [...]

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Latency

08.26.2008

by Denise, of Not What It Seems “Latency is a time delay between the moment something is initiated, and the moment one of its effects begins or becomes detectable. The word derives from the fact that during the period of latency the effects of an action are latent, meaning ‘potential’ or ‘not yet observed’.” I [...]

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One Last Look

08.24.2008

by Tori Taff, of Babybloomr As I slowly back out of my parents’ driveway (after ostentatiously making a show of double-checking seatbelts and adjusting mirrors because I know they’re watching), I tell the girls to “Wave!” and we vigorously waggle our arms and blow big sloppy kisses as we head down their quiet street and [...]

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Grandma Envy

08.21.2008

by Darryle Pollack of  I Never Signed Up For This My diagnosis of breast cancer 13 years ago dramatically increased the risk factor for my sister Carla.  In the years since, she’s been very vigilant–and very lucky.  And fortunately she’s had no problems. Now the tables are turned.  Although Carla is younger than me, she [...]

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Betraying my age group

08.21.2008

By Celeste Lindell of Average Jane When I turned 40, I decided that I was through being cagey about my age. I don’t go around announcing, “I’m 41!” to everyone I meet, but neither do I hem and haw when someone asks. On Friday mornings, I go to coffee with a group of people who [...]

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Adventures at Midlife: Still waiting for Uncle Sam?

08.19.2008

by msmeta of Adventures at Midlife The National Women’s Law Center just released the results of a poll indicating that “women are significantly more pessimistic than men in their attitudes about the status quo in America, both on a societal level and in terms of their own lives.” “Women are more likely than men to [...]

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The Sag Zone

08.18.2008

by K. Jayne Cockrill of The NanaDiaries I turn fifty-f*cking-three in September. Thirty years ago, I looked at my current age as far off in the future, in a land far, far away where gravity was of infinitesimal consequence. Time was something alien and against my primal mantra of I am young, I am invincible, [...]

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Yours, Mine and…Well, Mine

08.18.2008

by Janis Smyth of Jan’s Sushi Bar I got an email recently asking some basic questions about blogging, when the subject of copyrights came up. It occurred to me that while I have a very basic understanding of copyright laws, many people do not and it’s an issue almost every blogger will have to face [...]

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Former Prodigy Seeks Niche

08.16.2008

by Mary Wyatt of Unmitigated The first time I ever had an office job I was 19 years old. The last time I ever had an office job, I was 26 years old. If I ever, EVER even consider another office job, please, somebody shoot me. It takes a special kind of person to handle [...]

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