February 2010

MidLifeBloggers Jingle Dangle Earring Sweepstakes

02.26.2010

Do you like pretty things?  Do you like pretty, sparkly things?  Do you like pretty, sparkly things  that dangle gracefully from your earlobes?  Do you like these? Would you like to see them dangling gracefully from your earlobes?

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Wednesday Writers Workshop: Description, or Do You See What I See

02.24.2010

That is the purpose of description, you know, to suck your reader into your mind’s eye, and spew out for their benefit exactly what you’re seeing. Some people are really good at it.   And some people, well, they merely suck. Which are you? Me? I fall somewhere in the middle, somewhere between not bad [...]

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Use it or lose it: your brain, that is

02.22.2010

Really, I was afraid of making the wrong decision. At the age of 43, I didn’t want to start down a road, using up precious time and money, and then realizing it was a road I didn’t want to be on after all.

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Buying A Bathing Suit

02.19.2010

I just ordered a bathing suit.  It’s still February and I’m looking at swimwear.  I do this every year.  And every year, I pass on the opportunity to clothe my body for a season of swimming.  Thus, every year I do not swim. I do not swim for a variety of reasons–well, at least two. [...]

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Wednesday Writer’s Workshop: Should writing be such hard work?

02.17.2010

Wallace Stegner–remember him? He of the 1972 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for Angle of Repose? Known as the Dean of Western Writers and founder of the creative writing program at Stanford University? I have a slim volume of his entitled On The Teaching of Creative Writing, and from time to time I dip into it [...]

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A Vagina State of Mind

02.14.2010

During a routine visit a few days ago, we explored a new frontier in our doctor/patient relationship…one not yet (or hopefully ever to be) explored with my husband.

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Valentine’s Day 2010: Table For One, Please

02.11.2010

Last year I wasn’t dating anyone. I don’t recall right now how I spent that day, probably with my head in a bottle of wine- red, of course. Celebrating some form of self love, hopefully. But I was probably bemoaning my fate as a single woman…

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Wednesday Writer’s Workshop: Beginnings

02.10.2010

Where do you begin a story? At the beginning, of course. Well, maybe not. Hard news writers, the actual reporters among us, have to begin their leads with the time-honored 5Ws and H: Who? What? When? Where? Why? How? Composition instructors insist you start off with your topic sentence paragraph: here’s what I’m going to [...]

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Poetry from Midlife: Deep Bloom

02.08.2010

I want to live
right through to the end in full frontal
engagement, awake to everything.

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My Feet Hurt

02.05.2010

Yes they do. Every day. In almost every way. This, as much as used-up eggs and hot flashes, seems to be a fact of my midlife. Once, in my glory days, I could wear any number of cute little shoes with impunity. They were, in fact, the balm to an ego smashed by a body [...]

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