Politics, the Economy and Other Serious Stuff

I’m Not Selling My Soul–Just Trying to Keep MidLifeBloggers Going

09.19.2010

I’m stuck in a house worth about $150K less than what I paid for it in a neighborhood that is superb for families with small children, but for those of us who are single women of a certain age–not so much.

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I’m Mad As Hell and I’d Like To Tase The Lot of Them

01.22.2010

Wanted: one taser that works through the television.  If I had had my hands on such a thing last night while watching the Newshour on PBS, I would not have suffered such a migraine headache and three cracked molars from clenching my jaw so as to not scream out loud, at… The Supremes who, in [...]

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Looking Back, Looking Forward: Remembering The Kennedy’s

11.23.2009

It has never been more critical for our country to regain its courage, its self-respect, and its desire to never lose heart. Life is long and we ain’t dead yet, right?

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Making Art, Blogging and the Economy

04.15.2009

Some days it is all I can do to get through the news and the talk shows, even those with positive, grit-your-teeth, coupon-clip, saving-not-spending stories. But I’m trying to follow all the advice…

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Put your foot down – and send the Duchess a virtual shoe

03.07.2009

Action Aid wants 2876 people, one for every woman and girl who will contract HIV tomorrow, and the next day, and the day after that, and every day until we put our foot down to stop it, to sign a petition in support of the campaign. The campaign ends on International Women’s Day on March 8.

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Back To The Sixties in 2009

01.29.2009

Of course everyone was mellow at Woodstock–they were all high. Even for those who hadn’t taken any drugs, there was probably enough stuff they were breathing in the air.

The same was true in Washington. At the inauguration of Barack Obama, all you had to do was breathe the air–to be instantly intoxicated. Just like people were high at Woodstock–In Washington, people were high– on hope.

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On Money: MidLife Mommyblogger Meltdown

10.14.2008

by msmeta of Adventures at Midlife The Daily Beast, Tina Brown’s new excursion into tabloid online journalism, has an absolutely heart-wrenching collection of posts from women who have been slammed by the economic crisis. The last one, from a midlifer who calls herself The Accidental Housewife, really got to me: The generations who survived the [...]

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Whose Day Is It, Really?

05.12.2008

by Margaret Andrews, Nanny Goats in Panties I was a freshman in high school when I passed out in class, my head bonking against a desk in the next aisle over. Rather than letting me lay on the floor to let the blood return to my head, my teacher insisted I go to the nurse’s [...]

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