October 2008

Adopting At MidLife: Finding An Agency

10.30.2008

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

10.28.2008

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

10.26.2008

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?

10.24.2008

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

10.22.2008

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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MidLife Crisis? Take A Trip

10.20.2008

by Robin of MidLife On Wheels Today, sitting here, feet up, in western Colorado watching the clouds move across the peaks of the San Juan mountains, listening to a new iTunes playlist is worlds away from the life I left 4 years and 4 months ago today. Mid life .. what a deal.  There are [...]

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Color this post Pink: A Midlife Cancer Survivor Remembers Her First Day Back at Work

10.17.2008

It’s Just Another Hill, Baby by  Pseudonymous Teacher  of Phhhst In October of 2006 I returned to the classroom following a six month leave for breast cancer treatments.  My first day back to work presented many obstacles.  One, I wasn’t ready to go back.  Two, I needed to decide what type of fashion statement I [...]

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Dressing for Midlife: Who Gets To Say What’s Age Appropriate?

10.15.2008

Crossposted by Jane of  ByJane What’s your opinion on fashion for the forty and over set? I’ve been reading More magazine and frankly, it’s pissing me off. Last month Lesley Jane Seymour devoted her Editor’s Column to dressing one’s age. She described standing behind a woman at a hotel in Hollywood and trying to figure [...]

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On Money: MidLife Mommyblogger Meltdown

10.14.2008

by msmeta of Adventures at Midlife The Daily Beast, Tina Brown’s new excursion into tabloid online journalism, has an absolutely heart-wrenching collection of posts from women who have been slammed by the economic crisis. The last one, from a midlifer who calls herself The Accidental Housewife, really got to me: The generations who survived the [...]

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Adopting At MidLife: The Decision

10.10.2008

by Liz of Inventing My Life I’ve been doing a lot of thinking lately about nature vs. nurture, genetics vs. environment. When I first started thinking seriously about becoming a single mother, I was really leaning more toward getting pregnant on my own through donor sperm. For one thing, I thought I wouldn’t be able [...]

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