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For Father’s Day: One Man’s Memories

06.17.2011

In most of my memories, he is the shadow man. There, but not really there.

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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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BlogHer ’09 – Start Thinking Now!

11.13.2008

Blogher recently announced the date and place of the 2009 summer conference:  the weekend of July 24th in Chicago.  They also put out a Call For Ideas.  And then a couple of days ago, Elisa Camahort, one of the founders of BlogHer, sent me an email in which she said: BlogHer is passionate about delivering [...]

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What Really Makes Us Late?

09.25.2008

by Carol J. Clouse of No Clocks If you feel perplexed about your life, and cannot fathom why you do the things you do or exactly what the hell your problem is, individuals exist who can help clear all that up for you. They are called therapists, and they possess degrees from esteemed institutes of [...]

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Relationships at Midlife: The Dating Dead Zone

09.23.2008

by Allison Allen, of WomenBloom My life is pretty good in many ways these days. I’m healthy, holding up pretty well physically in most ways despite creeping middle age and Birthday 51 coming up at the end of the year, I have an active social life, and my professional life with WomenBloom is opening up [...]

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How I Made It Through HIS Midlife Crisis

09.18.2008

by Celeste Lindell of Average Jane It all started when my husband was in his mid-40s. He’d spent most of his life as a musician, but had recently become a regional sales representative for a wholesaler. That meant he’d cut his hair short and switched his wardrobe to khaki pants and a polo shirt in [...]

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The Art of Procrastination

09.16.2008

by Darryle Pollack of  I Never Signed Up For This The perfect title for my blog.  Art.   Procrastination.  The connection between them.  But honestly I don’t even know where to start. Should I start with the fact that there have been photos of mosaics on my blog since day one?  But I’ve been procrastinating and [...]

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What Love Is – The Other Side of the Story

09.15.2008

A couple of weeks ago, MidLifeBloggers published the first of Laura’s moving posts on an abusive marriage, Get Your Words Off Me.  This week, we’re featuring the other side of the story:  Kris’s description of her  successful marriage. All of us on MidLifeBloggers fall somewhere between these two poles–and we need to be reminded of [...]

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Diagnosis: ‘Over 40′. But what if it’s something more?

09.14.2008

by Susan Carleton of StonyRiverFarm “Well, you’re over forty, what do you expect?” More than one doctor has said this to me when I showed up with a complaint. Chronic headaches, fatigue, aches, dizziness, dry eyes, dry mouth, moles that look funny, foggy thinking and forgetfulness, irregular periods or night sweats, the list of midlife [...]

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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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