Watching My Waist
Mon, 8/03/10 – 13:55 | No Comment

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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Hey, Facebook: Thanks for giving me more than just memories
Monday, 18 Jan, 2010 – 1:17 | 5 Comments
Hey, Facebook: Thanks for giving me more than just memories

She was beautiful, smart and funny and I had an enormous schoolboy crush on her.

A Cougar Moment
Sunday, 10 Jan, 2010 – 18:16 | 15 Comments
A Cougar Moment

When we were introduced, I felt SOMETHING. Slightly muted, but it was there. Chemistry, perhaps, smothered in a few coats of dust

Midlife Crisis and Reinvention
Thursday, 6 Aug, 2009 – 13:59 | One Comment

“Your right to throw a punch stops at my face.” I remember hearing this expression years ago as a basic definition of freedom in the United States. I thought of it more recently when I read …

Lying About Your Age–according to CBS
Tuesday, 12 May, 2009 – 13:35 | 2 Comments

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 …

Dating At MidLife
Tuesday, 3 Mar, 2009 – 13:45 | 9 Comments
Dating At MidLife

Guys in my preferred age range 47 to 53 were looking for younger women. Or, they were acting flaky. Or, I was approached by men 10 to 15 years older than me, or, inexplicably, by simple country types from small towns, both too far outside my preferences. What was going on?

Relationships at Midlife: The Dating Dead Zone
Tuesday, 23 Sep, 2008 – 14:41 | 16 Comments

by Allison Allen, of WomenBloom
My life is pretty good in many ways these days. I’m healthy, holding up pretty well physically in most ways despite creeping middle age and Birthday 51 coming up at …