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Watching My Waist

03.08.2010

Then came the earthquakes. A divorce, single motherhood, a bankruptcy. Bing, Bang. Boom. Even though I was an emotional wreck, I never ballooned to outrageous proportions. Still, for the first time in my life I had to shimmy into a girdle to control the overflow of tummy flesh. I was mortified.

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Fifty: What Taylor Swift might be singing in 35 years…

03.01.2010

One day it struck me, as I was listening to Swift’s song how well the word “fifty” fit in the title spot. I decided to write the rest of the song.

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Poetry from Midlife: Deep Bloom

02.08.2010

I want to live
right through to the end in full frontal
engagement, awake to everything.

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My Feet Hurt

02.05.2010

Yes they do. Every day. In almost every way. This, as much as used-up eggs and hot flashes, seems to be a fact of my midlife. Once, in my glory days, I could wear any number of cute little shoes with impunity. They were, in fact, the balm to an ego smashed by a body [...]

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Age, Wisdom & Whatever Else I Know…

01.25.2010

Since I’m roughly halfway through my life, you can expect the following to be half wise.

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Returning to High School: The Reunion Show

10.20.2009

There on my computer monitor, staring at me in bold, cheerful color appeared a reunited assembly of my former classmates. My first thought was: Who are all these old, gray haired people?

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Redefining Hot in the MidLife Dictionary

08.18.2009

I’m also poking fun at myself for being conflicted about no longer being hot–-hot in the sense that people who didn’t already know that I was “beautiful on the inside” thought I was hot.

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The New Roommates

08.04.2009

In a sense, they are like spouse stand-ins, and they’re thinking of getting T-shirts made saying: “I’m Becoming The Man I Always Wanted To Marry.”

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Eternal Youthfulness: Is it a myth? Do we even want it?

06.18.2009

At fifty-three, I have to laugh when I hear people claim that fifty is the new thirty, or that aging is all in your head. The truth is, it’s a lot of work to stay young. Which isn’t the same thing as remaining youthful.

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Lying About Your Age–according to CBS

05.12.2009

This little number arrived in my mailbox this morning and it’s got me fit to be tied.  Lesley Jane Seymour, editor of More, is debating some “Dating Coach” (quotes mine), on the Morning Show, about the pros and cons of lying about your age.  (It’s a CBS clip so you have to sit through some [...]

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