August 2008

Old-school community service

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

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

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

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

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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