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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Going Home–While You Still Can
Monday, 1 Feb, 2010 – 0:17 | 8 Comments
Going Home–While You Still Can

Time really does move faster when you’re older….I just blinked and 2009 had passed me by before I realized it…and 2010 is already moving just as fast!

She Said, She Said: On eating, death and other such things
Sunday, 17 May, 2009 – 23:12 | No Comment
She Said, She Said: On eating, death and other such things

The back of one of these senior photos says, “I think we are both creatives nuts and that’s why we get along so well.”   From Day One, we shared a sense of humor, along …

MidLife Suicides: Blaming The Victim?
Friday, 24 Oct, 2008 – 14:52 | 4 Comments

by msmeta of Adventures at Midlife

There’s a startling and rather depressing discussion going on at Tina Brown’s The Daily Beast over the American Journal of Preventative Medicine’s newly released study on baby boomers and …

One Last Look
Sunday, 24 Aug, 2008 – 16:33 | 15 Comments

by Tori Taff, of Babybloomr

As I slowly back out of my parents’ driveway (after ostentatiously making a show of double-checking seatbelts and adjusting mirrors because I know they’re watching), I tell the girls to “Wave!” …

Making every day count
Thursday, 14 Aug, 2008 – 20:19 | 2 Comments

by Celeste Lindell of Average Jane
Almost every day, my husband reminds me that I’m probably going to outlive him. He has reason to think so: he’s ten years older than I am, a diabetic with …

Wendy Wasserstein
Monday, 30 Jan, 2006 – 13:15 | 2 Comments

died. Who even knew she was that sick? Am I so out of the loop? Does it matter?
Well, yes, to me it does.
Years ago, when Uncommon Women and …