book review

Book Review of Fierce with Age: Chasing God and Squirrels in Brooklyn

05.13.2013

So now what, at this age? Who am I without the accouterments of my earlier life? My job, my youth, my expertise in a particular field? If I’m not running the race, do I even have value?

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Bits & Pieces: New Books Of Interest

03.31.2013

Three books, three authors look at the issues of midlife: managing time and the meaning of your life, parenting adult children, moving on in midlife.

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The Money Code: A Review and a $25 Giveaway

01.16.2013

I deal with money issues in my life either not at all or with lightening speed and minimal consideration. I know this about myself and I know, chapter and verse, how my bank balance, life style and peace of mind have suffered.

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Bits & Pieces, Informative & Not: The beginning

07.11.2012

Bits & Pieces, Informative & Not will be an occasional post that highlights what I’m hearing about, learning, seeing, wanting to share. Like…..

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Calling Invisible Women: a Review and a Giveaway

06.22.2012

Ray, a bestselling New York Times author, has penned a contender for the beach book MidLifeBloggers will take on vacation.

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Walking Manhattan: Washington Heights, Inwood, Fort George

06.01.2012

I was a tad uneasy about heading to the northernmost edge of Manhattan but what I found when I arrived was nothing at all to fear.

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Anna Quindlen and Me

05.23.2012

She wasn’t the prettiest, the thinnest, the most popular girl but she was really smart and seriously focused and as ambitious as any of the guys. These were the heady days of feminism after all. Anna was a sister.

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Sticky Readers: Flypaper for Your Blog

11.07.2011

Bottom line, then, what Margaret’s book is about is: how to write blog posts that make readers return to your site.

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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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Fire and Rain, the book

10.24.2011

It offers, at least in my mind, the sound track to my personal history back in the day, and for that alone, I can’t stop reading.

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