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Remembering the Crucial Things of Christmas Past

12.19.2011

Somewhere in this bittersweet funk, I have been remembering things that used to be really important to me that are no more, and wondering why. Such as:

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An Epiphany at TJ Maxx

08.03.2011

So, I decided, I will, then, be a hag. Are you horrified? Ready to hit the delete key? Well, hear me out first…

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Stalking: Victim and/or Perpetrator

01.14.2009

[S]talking is “a course of conduct, directed at a specific person on at least two separate occasions, that would cause a reasonable person to feel fear.” But a recently single midlife friend of mine has, since her divorce, attracted several sad-sack, underachieving older men who call her regularly but for whom she has expressed no interest. She calls them, in a kindly way, her “stalkers.” She doesn’t fear them, although she admits that they can get annoying. (No surprise, her underachieving ex-husband also calls her regularly to lament his life, so maybe she needs to set up some firmer boundaries…)

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Adventures at Midlife: Election 2008: Why shouldn’t we get along?

09.09.2008

by msmeta of Adventures at Midlife My blogging tastes are, to say the least, far-ranging. In addition to my midlife friends, I keep up with a number of political, media, fashion, health, religious, sports (alas, it’s true) and even fat-acceptance (FA) bloggers. And if what is happening in some of the FA blogs and blog [...]

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Adventures at Midlife: Still waiting for Uncle Sam?

08.19.2008

by msmeta of Adventures at Midlife The National Women’s Law Center just released the results of a poll indicating that “women are significantly more pessimistic than men in their attitudes about the status quo in America, both on a societal level and in terms of their own lives.” “Women are more likely than men to [...]

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Adventures at Midlife: Simulating midlife

08.05.2008

by msmeta of Adventures at Midlife In a recent story in the NYTimes, participants in a three-hour training program called Xtreme Aging held at an retirement care center were suited up as old folks: Along with 15 colleagues and a reporter, [33-year-old participant] Mrs. Ramirez, a social worker at the facility, put on distorting glasses [...]

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Adventures at Midlife: Women, work and the ‘non-recession’

07.28.2008

By Msmeta of MetaFootnotes The NYTimes ran an interesting article about how the economic downturn is turning out to be gender-neutral: Across the country, women in their prime earning years, struggling with an unfriendly economy, are retreating from the work force, either permanently or for long stretches… When economists first started noticing this trend two [...]

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