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I Can’t Change Time, But It’s Sure Changed Me.

05.20.2013

Our age may belie our actions, but in the end, we discover we are indeed getting older and doing and saying things we swore in our youth would never happen.

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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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Julia Stiles as “Blue” is back: WIGS YouTube scripted drama

03.22.2013

That difference translates to much more freedom and collaboration between director and actors than one gets in a studio film.

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New Year’s Resolutions: Part I, 2012 – How’d I do?

01.01.2013

To get into YouTube. Is there an opening for our midlife niche there? “Fail. If there’s an opening–and I think there is–it will not be filled by me. See Part II, Resolutions 2013 for explanation.”

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Aging Out and Owning Up

12.09.2012

So once again I’m asking myself: what do I want to be when I grow up? Or, more correctly, as I grow old?

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Saving Gracie: a review of the 21st century feminist novel

12.06.2012

“Too much freedom is starting to feel as bad as not enough. Why did I jump on the Liberation train without asking where it would take me?”

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The Freedom That Comes From Forgiving

12.03.2012

I’ll never know, so I chose to believe the first interpretation. And that’s what I’m thinking about today, a few days before what would have been my dad’s birthday: sometimes the prison in which we live is self-constructed.

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Hello, my name is Jane and this is my blog

11.24.2012

Welcome back to me and to you and to anyone else who cares to join us. We are making the most of midlife together–because that’s the only way I know how to do it.

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The Strangest Thing Happened to Me This Summer…

10.07.2012

A few weeks go by and the restlessness continues to haunt me. I am bored with reading. The dog and I have run out of things to talk about.

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Bits & Pieces: Of My Life

10.03.2012

Fourteen agents showed the house in four days. Who says the housing market is still dead??!!

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