A Film for the MidLife Folks

05.12.2008

I posted a review of A Previous Engagement here. Go & see what I said.

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Who’s That in Those Faded Photos?

05.08.2008

by Carolyn Bahm On the far left and right are my mom and dad, Frances and Robert Ray Gaddy. In the center are my Aunt Doris and her first husband, Ray Welch, on their wedding day. My mom’s dress: Lime green. Men’s suits: Gray. Ties: Brilliant colors. Dad’s shoes: Blindingly white. I’m finally doing something [...]

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Menopause Has Stolen My Brain!

05.05.2008

by Janis Smyth of Jan’s Sushi Bar When I posted on my blog that I was having trouble writing because of the brain fog that so often accompanies the whole menopause experience, Jane asked if I’d write about what it feels like for MidLifeBloggers.com. I said “Of course!” I mean, no time like while you’re [...]

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Plastic Surgery: yes? no? if not now, then when?

05.01.2008

Aaryn Belfer’s got an article in the San Diego City Beat in which she takes apart a new picture book for kids called My Beautiful Mommy. It was written by a plastic surgeon in order to help, he assures us, the children of his patients get used to mommy’s new nose or belly or tits [...]

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What I’m Thinking…what you’re thinking

04.28.2008

There are a number of thought threads that are warping and wefting through my mind about our site. I’ll start off intending to write about one, but then another floats into view and grabs my attention. Part of this is that I do have ADHD, so sticking to something is, was, and will always be [...]

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Taking the Leap – Into the Second Half

04.25.2008

I looked around the flower covered table at my “mommy” friends and I felt lucky. I have good friends, good family, and a good life yet there’s something missing… me. I spent much of today at a friend’s 50th birthday party: a beautiful luncheon in a gorgeous Beverly Hills hotel. Twenty-five or so women, most [...]

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04.24.2008

A category of posts, conversations and whatever that have to do with taking care of other people

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Who We Are and Why

04.24.2008

Life is pretty lonely these days, for all of us. If you’ve taken a psych or soc or polysci course, you’ve heard the term anomie. Our society has fragmented and our connections have frayed over the past century or so, and we are each of us left alone with a very personal drive for meaning, [...]

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I’ve moved…

10.08.2006

My latest post is at my new address:  http://byjane.blogspot.com Hope to see you there.

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In which I cry UNCLE and admit to being defeated by code…

09.30.2006

I’ve given up.  Maybe if I hadn’t taken a full-time job (for the first time years), I would have been able to fasten my slightly damaged brain around the intricacies of code.  But I can’t.  I know what I want my web site to look like and do.  I even have said site established at [...]

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