It’s Not PMS, It’s You! Interview with the author
Fri, 27/08/10 – 14:04 | 26 Comments

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The Weekly Rant: Raley’s, BelAir, and NobHill markets
Monday, 23 Aug, 2010 – 22:52 | 8 Comments
The Weekly Rant: Raley’s, BelAir, and NobHill markets

Strip away all the hoohah, the pink and the blue, the booties and the pacifiers, and what you’ve got is a world in which women are valued for what their ovaries do and their wombs produce.

The Weekly Rant: Target in the Bullseye, again
Friday, 13 Aug, 2010 – 17:00 | 13 Comments

Here’s what’s P-ing me O, frosting my hide, and generally adding to my disgruntlement this week.
Target: Yes, again. I made a trip to Target in Elk Grove yesterday because I needed (a) knickers, …

Pink-slipped in Midlife: Who do you turn to?
Wednesday, 30 Sep, 2009 – 12:14 | 14 Comments
Pink-slipped in Midlife: Who do you turn to?

Here she was — the latest in the string of middle-aged women laid off, retired, let go, fired, since the economy nose-dived last year.

How To Survive Change You Didn’t Ask For
Thursday, 27 Aug, 2009 – 13:30 | 3 Comments
How To Survive Change You Didn’t Ask For

The only thing any of us can know for certain is that life will continue to change at a rapid pace because the world has gotten more complex and interdependent.

Making Art, Blogging and the Economy
Wednesday, 15 Apr, 2009 – 15:21 | 2 Comments
Making Art, Blogging and the Economy

Some days it is all I can do to get through the news and the talk shows, even those with positive, grit-your-teeth, coupon-clip, saving-not-spending stories. But I’m trying to follow all the advice…

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 …

On Money: MidLife Mommyblogger Meltdown
Tuesday, 14 Oct, 2008 – 1:01 | 4 Comments

by msmeta of Adventures at Midlife

The Daily Beast, Tina Brown’s new excursion into tabloid online journalism, has an absolutely heart-wrenching collection of posts from women who have been slammed by the economic crisis. The last …

Adventures at Midlife: Still waiting for Uncle Sam?
Tuesday, 19 Aug, 2008 – 22:33 | 3 Comments
Adventures at Midlife: Still waiting for Uncle Sam?

by msmeta of Adventures at Midlife
The National Women’s Law Center just released the results of a poll indicating that “women are significantly more pessimistic than men in their attitudes about the status quo in America, …

The Upside of Recession
Thursday, 29 May, 2008 – 17:24 | 5 Comments
The Upside of Recession

Meghan Daum, writing in the LATimes, has managed to find a bright side to the growing recession, with its flattened house market and $4/gallon gas prices: home repairmen who come immediately, and California’s empty freeways.
Sure, …