May 2009

Jon & Kate Plus 8: Hang ‘em from the highest tree

05.25.2009

I just finished the season opener of Jon & Kate Plus 8. It was painful to watch, especially for anyone who has gone through the breakup of a marriage. Clearly they are each putting on the Brave Face that I remember so well from my own life, and that, perhaps, makes it harder for me [...]

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Name This Post…

05.21.2009

Here’s the link to my most recent More post…The title is misleading…well, not so much misleading as–ho hum! wake me when it’s over.  Perhaps I should hold a competition for naming my More posts, since neither I nor the editors seem particularly good at it.

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Friendship at Midlife: Are the days of BFF over?

05.20.2009

Looking back over the past several years, I realize that many of my social relationships were built on the shifting sands of proximity or shared experience.

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She Said, She Said: On eating, death and other such things

05.17.2009

The back of one of these senior photos says, “I think we are both creatives nuts and that’s why we get along so well.”   From Day One, we shared a sense of humor, along with–and about–all the traumas and dramas of growing up.   It doesn’t seem to us like anything has changed, and [...]

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What Happens To One of Us Happens To All of Us

05.15.2009

Gwendomomma is a blogger I met at Woolf Camp last month.  Now she’s a blogger in need.  In the infinite wisdom of our courts, her ex was allowed to plead down a domestic violence charge to disturbing the peace.  This came after he cleared out their money to pay for his bail!  Gwendomomma has two [...]

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Dreams, Goals and Reality

05.14.2009

Last year when I started MidLifeBloggers, a small lust lodged in my brain. More magazine would come calling…and offer me untold wealth to sell them the site. I believe this fantasy included a home in the South of France–and the body to go with it.

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Lying About Your Age–according to CBS

05.12.2009

This little number arrived in my mailbox this morning and it’s got me fit to be tied.  Lesley Jane Seymour, editor of More, is debating some “Dating Coach” (quotes mine), on the Morning Show, about the pros and cons of lying about your age.  (It’s a CBS clip so you have to sit through some [...]

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Do You Twitter?

05.11.2009

This is a test. All questions will be graded and put into a saucer of milk for the cat. If you Twitter, why do you Twitter? Hear this in a plaintive tone first–and then in a WTF demand. Both plaint and WTF are heartfelt. I have been Twittering for a donkey’s age, it seems, but [...]

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Unanswered Questions About Cosmetic “Enhancements”

05.07.2009

I wonder how long I’m supposed to keep it up? At what age do I knock it off– Skip the Botox, cancel the personal trainer, go with the uni-brow, and lose the retainer on my teeth at night?

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To Dye or Not, That is the [Midlife] Question…

05.04.2009

Now that I’m finished with chemotherapy, my hair is growing back….The Jane Fonda Klute wig I’ve been wearing will soon be a relic, so here I stand at the crossroads: go gray or say nay?

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