February 2009

Photo Essay: Did Someone Live Here Once?

This photo essay is the first of what we hope will be a regular posting on MidLifeBloggers: contributions from MidLifeBloggers who are visual artists.

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MidLife: Time to Update That Look? Or Not?

The eye shadow was the first to go. Instead of making me look youthful and wide-eyed, it began to make me look tired and slightly clownish, like I’d lost a run-in with a tropical fish.

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BlogHer ’09

Yes, I am. Because I’m speaking…Yes, I am. At the session…
LifeBlogging Outside the Lines: When You’re not a Geek, a Political Wonk or a MommyBlogger.

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AARP: Do You Know Where Your Membership Card Is ???

The envelope came this week. To be honest, it came as a bit of a surprise. I really thought the mailman made a mistake…..till I saw my name on it. Wait a minute here, I’m not 50 yet. I haven’t wrapped my head around the fact yet…. that I’ll be 50 in September. WOW! It’s not that I don’t KNOW I’ll be 50 this year and in some ways I’ve been preparing for what I want to do for my birthday. But there is a difference between planning a getaway to a spa and a boozy filled weekend with the girls and shoving a “Hey yo, yeah you, you’re old” card in my face.

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Forgive and Forget: Can You…Should You…Will You?

A friend of mine (who knows I am blogging about this) announced a couple of days ago that she had recently caught her husband having an affair with a work colleague.
He claimed it was just a ‘one night stand’.
She asked me what I thought.
Well, to be honest, I was sitting there thinking how much easier it would have been if President Obama had asked for my opinion on the world economic crisis.
I could have answered that question.

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