April 2009

Our First 365: A Report

04.30.2009

Obama’s just celebrated his first 100 days, and MidLifeBloggers, not to be left out of the hoopalah, is celebrating our first 365, plus or minus a couple. Here’s what we’ve done in that time: Changed themes: three, maybe four times Changed logos: four times Published: 146 posts by 30-something bloggers Which Provoked:  1,079 Comments, of [...]

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What is it about the libido and midlife?

04.27.2009

When I was young and juicy and single, I was really hot….Yet, here I am at 57, in pretty good shape for an old broad, menopausal to be sure, and yet I almost never even think of SEX. I can’t believe it.

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The Caregiver In MidLife : Where their needs end and yours begin

04.22.2009

Midlife is a time when our focus and our energies are shifting inward, yet now we have an additional responsibility. It’s easy to lose sight of ourselves during the process of taking care of aging parents.

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MidLife Lived on the Water in England

04.20.2009

We are all still variously lame, divorced, pierced, tattooed, out to lunch or gone fishiing, TV license fee evaders every one. I am fast catching up with the others, a connoisseur of scrounged bonfires: I favour picnic tables.

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MidLife and Mammograms

04.17.2009

About two months ago, while showering I found a lump on my left breast. I ran my fingers across it as I was taught to do. Yes, it is there, it’s not my imagination.

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Making Art, Blogging and the Economy

04.15.2009

Some days it is all I can do to get through the news and the talk shows, even those with positive, grit-your-teeth, coupon-clip, saving-not-spending stories. But I’m trying to follow all the advice…

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International Adoption: The Wait

04.13.2009

Now, this waiting for a referral feels a lot like that waiting to jump. I’ve spent months preparing…and I’m starting to worry that I’m going to forget all of it while I wait and won’t have a clue what to do when I finally bring Actual Child home!

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If There Is No Sedar, Is It Really Passover?

04.08.2009

I think not. I do have a box of matzohs in the cupboard. And I plan to buy some gefillte fish with the 1/2 coupon Maneschevitz handed out. But that will probably be the extent of my Passover celebration. One might say that this year I am not passing over. One might say I am [...]

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The Grayification of Facebook–and the rest of the world

04.06.2009

…we Americans almost universally associate “greying” with aging. Which is strange considering the fact that I know men who are completely bald by thirty, and we don’t use the word “balding” as a way of referring to states of degeneration.

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The Beginning of the End: When a Parent Starts to Fade

04.01.2009

It’s not an emergency, it’s not drastic or horrifying. But he’s slowing down, he’s hesitating, he’s struggling just a little as he tries to retrieve a name or a word he KNOWS he knows.

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