Online dating: Stories from the Front Lines
Fri, 12/03/10 – 12:11 | One Comment

Bud asked if I liked spanking. Mike’s first email was an erotic story. The artist guy took me out to brunch then turned out to be penniless.

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Barbie At 50, Still A Rolemodel
Sunday, 29 Mar, 2009 – 17:15 | 8 Comments
Barbie At 50, Still A Rolemodel

Don’t underestimate the reach of the Internet, ever. Barbie Googles, it seems, and she is not happy! With me!!

MidLife Sex and HIV/AIDS
Thursday, 26 Mar, 2009 – 23:26 | 11 Comments

And now, of course, we’re all midlife women, well past the gallivanting stage. So we’re still safe–right? Not so fast.

When The Diagnosis is Autism: What You Can Do
Wednesday, 25 Mar, 2009 – 12:56 | 5 Comments
When The Diagnosis is Autism: What You Can Do

This week, my friend’s grandson received a formal, medical diagnosis of autism. This news brought a flood of memories of me as a confused, terrified and angry mother of another three-year old boy with autism.

Midlife: When The Freedom To Choose Can Be Frightening
Monday, 23 Mar, 2009 – 0:17 | 9 Comments
Midlife: When The Freedom To Choose Can Be Frightening

Last night, for the first time in almost 20 years, I finally felt like I owned my life. It was a simple night. Made some angel hair pasta with diced tomatoes, garlic, onion, garlic bread….And suddenly, I realized that this is truly the beginning of my life. MY life. I could do whatever I wanted – which turned out to be doing nothing at all, really.

Natasha Richardson, TBI and thinking about death
Friday, 20 Mar, 2009 – 0:37 | 16 Comments
Natasha Richardson, TBI and thinking about death

I don’t want to write about her–but I can’t not, because my mind won’t go anywhere else. Since word of her skiing accident first came in, I can’t not–think about her, that is, in one …

An Open Letter To My Fat Cells
Wednesday, 18 Mar, 2009 – 12:20 | 4 Comments
An Open Letter To My Fat Cells

I have a bone to pick with you. You are a million tiny dark clouds that, en masse, have been growing inside of me, haunting me. Terrorizing me, really. You are like pigeons who hang around garbage dumpsters. . .

Social Networking, Twitter, and our brave new world
Monday, 16 Mar, 2009 – 12:06 | 6 Comments
Social Networking, Twitter, and our brave new world

I hesitate to explain this part because it makes Twitter—and me—sound even more shallow and superficial than we already are. On Twitter you express yourself in 140 characters. That’s it. Your 140 characters enter the vast Twitter-verse where words fly by in a mad jumble—as if someone mixed together fleeting thoughts from thousands of brains and released them in one huge stream of consciousness all at once.

Why I Stay Home
Friday, 13 Mar, 2009 – 12:52 | 12 Comments

I have another one of those social thingies to go to tonight. I was all hot-to-trot when I first heard about it, drinks at an Irish pub downtown, 6-8pm. I planned the ‘when shall I …

International Adoption: Choosing A Country
Thursday, 12 Mar, 2009 – 11:40 | No Comment
International Adoption: Choosing A Country

At that point, I turned to international adoption. I learned that not every country will allow single parents to adopt, which eliminated several countries from consideration right off the bat.

Late Night Fantasies…
Wednesday, 11 Mar, 2009 – 12:56 | 5 Comments

…of work well done tomorrow.
That’s me, brushing my teeth and planning–with great energy and zest and, yes, enthusiasm (is this overkill?) all that I am going to accomplish the next day. Except I don’t. Because, …

The MidLife Issue: Who Are We?
Tuesday, 10 Mar, 2009 – 13:28 | 15 Comments
The MidLife Issue:  Who Are We?

We just don’t have words in the English language to describe between the pupa stage of our child-bearing years and the full grown butterfly of elderhood.

Upgrading the BlogRoll–and Giving It a Room of Its Own
Monday, 9 Mar, 2009 – 12:38 | No Comment

Lo, the mightly blogroll that was lurking at the lower end of the sidebar is gone. In its place, at the top of the site, is a magic button marked BlogRoll.  Click on that and …