October 2008

Adopting At MidLife: Finding An Agency

by Liz of Inventing My Life On Saturday I went to an information session for Wide Horizons for Children, an adoption agency; today I filled out their registration form and will drop it in the mail on Monday. One step down, about a thousand left to go! I’ve been collecting information on agencies for about […]

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Waiting for Mr. Goodbar–or vice versa…at MidLife

by Darryle Pollack of I Never Signed Up For This We’re in the final countdown. Only a few days left. The signs are everywhere I look, and I’m starting to feel the pressure and the excitement building. The big day is almost here. Of course millions of other people will participate, but this day will […]

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MidLife? There Are Some Things We Do Like Hotter

by Mark of Going Like Sixty Somebody and/or something is changing.  My wife, Nancy, left Thursday on a knitting/fiber jaunt.  She’ll return soon, but in the meantime, she made up a crockpot full of chili for me to eat.   Otherwise she knows it will be Miller Chill and M & M’s.  We had a […]

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MidLife Suicides: Blaming The Victim?

by msmeta of Adventures at Midlife There’s a startling and rather depressing discussion going on at Tina Brown’s The Daily Beast over the American Journal of Preventative Medicine’s newly released study on baby boomers and suicide: [B]etween 1999 and 2005, the suicide rate lept by 3.9 percent among white women aged 40 to 64, and […]

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Midlife Fashion Trauma: Shopping for Jeans

Blue Was My Favorite Color by Cecilia of Sass Town I backed out of the driveway Monday with the clear cut mission of finding a replacement pair of blue jeans. There were some definite perimeters involved in the search. They must be dark wash, boot cut, mid-rise, have back pockets but no flaps, be petite […]

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