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OP ED on ShePosts: The Bloggers Bitch Book

05.16.2012

What is with the hostility we women are showing each other online? There are sites that exist for the sole purpose of acid and cruel putdowns of other bloggers. There are bloggers who devote whole posts to vitriole against other bloggers. Why?

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A Mother’s Lesssons

05.13.2012

In one six week blizzard of disobedience, I went from the youngest child who pleased his mother to the only one of the four children to get kicked out of the house.

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When A Loved One is Ill and The Hospital Seems Not To Care

02.27.2012

Dealing with a cancer diagnosis is extremely difficult. Dealing with the medical profession is almost just as difficult.

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The Norovirus and Divorce: two topics not related

01.27.2012

My apologies, then, for being totally MIA with the Wednesday Writers Workshop this week. I offer instead the post I wrote before I got sick for ShePosts.com about bloggers as celebrities.

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Resolutions for 2012

01.01.2012

To pull off the best ever–and the first!–MidLifeBloggers Conference in 2012!

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The Creation of a Grandfather

12.12.2011

With them, he could just be Papa, with no real responsibility or accountability – and so they got the best of him.

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The Devolution of a Family Christmas

12.01.2011

The Christmas wreath on my door, festooned with ribbon and twinkling lights, is just southwest of the mezzuzah on the doorframe, and truth to tell, I like it that way.

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The Last Blind Date, by my new BFF

10.31.2011

And that ego drubbing was what made her realize “how dearly I needed a support system. And not just the kind made of spandex.”

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What Happens After Tomorrow? Planning for the Unplannable

09.19.2011

Some years passed and with time and age, my mother’s feelings about her financial security changed as well. She started to keep things close to her, to not want to throw away cracked cups and shirts that were somewhat shabby.

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Try to Remember a Time in September…

09.14.2011

It’s 1968 and H and I have just married.  We go almost straight from our wedding to Seven Springs, Pennsylvania, a resort where we will be part of the first (and I believe last!) summer stock company.

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