May 2009

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

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…

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?

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

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

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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