December 2008

Memories of Israel The Last Time

12.30.2008

by Laura of Rebellious Thoughts of A Woman The following are a couple of difficult memories of life in Israel. Difficult, because, really, why can’t the Jews just be left alone in their own little country on the Mediterranean? When I first moved back to Israel in 1983, after deciding that I was going to [...]

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WE’RE BACK…

12.27.2008

…just taking a break.  We’ll be back in the New Year. And now that break is well over.  You’ve noticed, of course, our new design, a less bloggy, more magazine-y look for the site, which we feel is more appropriate to the spirit and intent of MidLifeBloggers.   Each new post will go first into the [...]

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MidLife Decisions: To Throw or To Keep

12.11.2008

Are you a saver or a thrower?  I ask that while looking at my newly framed Meet The Beatles! Album, circa 1964.  Beatles.jpg Nice, huh?  Okay, maybe a bit fuzzy, but don’t blame me; it’s the iPhone’s fault.  And the fuzziness obscures the crummy, scuffed up, lost-half-its-value state of the album.  But still, I love [...]

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Letter to my son

12.07.2008

by Judy of Five Husbands My son is participating in a leadership conference this weekend.  Parents were invited to send letters to their children to be opened as a surprise during the weekend. One of the many stresses of long term unemployment and poverty is that opportunities like this get jumbled and mixed up. His [...]

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I Have Nothing to Wear: Pants Department, or How about that elastic waist?

12.05.2008

By Laura G. of Rebellious Thoughts of a Woman Perhaps the most serious flaw or failure to appear in my closet is pants. This may be news to the clothing companies, but women have thighs and for some horribly upsetting reason, they get bigger as we get older. As the breadth of our experience widens, [...]

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Writing Your Life: For Fun and Profit

12.03.2008

We’re bloggers, so we know that the internet has made the world a whole lot smaller and a whole lot more accessible to the so-called common person.  Used to be that literary competitions were only open to literary folk, i.e. those who had been accorded their bona fides by the publishing world.  These days, though, [...]

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