The spice of life

08.07.2008

by Celeste Lindell of Average Jane Because I have no children and thus will never be a grandmother, it seems appropriate that I got a lot of my sterotypically grandmotherly behavior out of the way when I was a teenager. I distinctly remember a visit from my best friend spent sitting side by side, quietly [...]

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Imagination

08.05.2008

  I have a 4 year old niece who I call the ”Peanut”.  Even though she’s just a kid, it cracks me up how much I learn from her – instead of the other way around. One of the Peanut’s many talents is the power of imagination. Sometimes she’s a ballerina, sometimes a singer, an artist or a basketball player.  In [...]

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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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Increasing Your Traffic

08.04.2008

“Those who can, do. Those who can’t, teach. Those who can’t teach, teach gym.” – Woody Allen Hello class – my name is Coach Smyth and I’m going to be your instructor today. After asking what you’d all like to know more about, increasing traffic to our blogs seemed to generate the most interest, so [...]

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The Gift: An Open Letter to My Kids

08.01.2008

by Merlot Mom Let’s get it out in the open. Things have been different lately. It looks like I’m here, but my mind is somewhere else. You’re acting out. You’re used to having Mommy around, nursing every wound, making ice cream sundaes, listening to every run-on sentence steam-rolling through your charged-up, little brains. I love [...]

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My Role Model for Midlife

07.31.2008

by Celeste Lindell, of Average Jane When I was growing up, I used to think my mother spent all her time deliberately trying to embarrass me. It wasn’t until I started becoming more like her that I realized she was just living life on her own terms. From the stories I heard about my mother’s [...]

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Finding The Groove

07.29.2008

by Allison Allen, of WomenBloom When Jane asked if I would write a post for Midlifebloggers, I had an ACKKK! What do I write about? moment. Thankfully, she expressed curiosity about how I came to start WomenBloom. Whew, rescued. In fall of 2006, I suddenly realized I was coming up on my 49th birthday. I [...]

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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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Vogue gets it

07.27.2008

If you’re interested in fashion–well, some of us are and some of us aren’t–you must, absolutely must, darling, see the August issue of Vogue.  That is, as in the past, their so-called Age Issue, when they feature women and fashion from every decade from twenty through eighty.  I love that.  Unlike other magazines, they really [...]

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Who Inspires You in MidLife?

07.26.2008

That’s the title of MidLifeMuse’s regular post this week on BlogHer.  It’s a great piece, thoughtful and thought-provoking.  Go read it.  Let Karen, who is BlogHer’s new Contributing Editor for their new MidLife category, know what you think.

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