divorce

And One More Thing………

11.26.2012

I am so tired of hearing men saying, “I want a woman without baggage” or “Women my age have too much baggage” or my favorite “I want a woman with no drama”

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Blogging Your Divorce

01.27.2012

My apologies, then, for being totally MIA with the Wednesday Writers Workshop this week. I offer instead the post I wrote before I got sick for ShePosts.com about bloggers as celebrities.

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Wednesday Writer’s Workshop: Right Outta Nowhere

04.07.2010

As promised, this is what I wrote in response to last Wednesday’s musical prompt.  And you? What did you write? I got the Christine Kane CD at BlogHer’07, which happened not long after Dennis moved out. I was, to say the least, in a fragile state of mind. When I got back from the conference, [...]

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Hey, Facebook: Thanks for giving me more than just memories

01.18.2010

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

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Midlife Crisis and Reinvention

08.06.2009

“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 Jon Gosselin’s plea for public understanding of his romances and his new career as a clothing designer so soon after [...]

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In Sickness and In Health

06.06.2009

I’m missing writing on ByJane. I’m missing doodling with keyboard and I’m missing venting and I’m missing sharing my every this, that or the other. MidLifeBloggers seems too–I dunno–grownup to just mess about on. Or maybe it’s just me. Maybe I feel too grownup to mess about in public. Whatever. Stuff is going on in [...]

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Letter to my son

12.07.2008

by Judy of Five Husbands My son is participating in a leadership conference this weekend.  Parents were invited to send letters to their children to be opened as a surprise during the weekend. One of the many stresses of long term unemployment and poverty is that opportunities like this get jumbled and mixed up. His [...]

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MidLife Therapy: A Shrink In A Book

11.20.2008

by Suzanne of TwentyFour At Heart I’m still hanging out while I wait for my sex toy gift basket to arrive.  I suppose you’ll want to hear about it when it arrives?  What happens if I can’t figure out what something is used for, will you explain it to me? I’ve talked a lot about [...]

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Get Your Words Off Me

08.13.2008

This begins a new series of posts By Laura G, of Rebellious Thoughts of a Woman On Being a Smart, Independent Emotionally-Abused Woman But is he mean to you? my friend asks when I tell her that I am changing my last name back to my maiden name after my divorce. What do you mean? [...]

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