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.

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.

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…

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 …

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 …

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, …

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, …