midlife issues

A MidLifeBlogger Writes From Israel

02.16.2013

My family spans the entire Jewish spectrum from less-religiously-observant to more-so and I spend a lot of my time trying to balance my kids’ needs with my own. Sound familiar? I mean, basically, I’m just like almost every other 54-year-old that you know.

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It’s Not The Colonoscopy That’s Difficult: It’s the Prep That’s a Killer

02.04.2013

No, I’m not looking forward to today, this day of preparation before my Happy 50th Birthday Colonoscopy. The test itself doesn’t worry me. I’m grateful for this technology, for the chance to catch a potential problem. It’s this not eating bit and the “internal cleansing” that I dread with every pore of my being.

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Travel Terrors: There’s A Hotel In My Closet

01.27.2013

I am hotel-challenged. I wake up in the night disoriented and panicky as if I’ve fallen off a cliff. If I can go back to sleep, I wake up moments later and it starts all over again – fall off the cliff, wake up, fall off the cliff – until I reach the somewhat acceptable hour of 4:00 to rise.

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The Money Code: A Review and a $25 Giveaway

01.16.2013

I deal with money issues in my life either not at all or with lightening speed and minimal consideration. I know this about myself and I know, chapter and verse, how my bank balance, life style and peace of mind have suffered.

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Progressive Lenses: A Cautionary Tale

01.13.2013

I would stick a pair of reading glasses on while still wearing my distance lenses. Problem solved. I’m sure I looked ridiculous, but this method kept me from ordering trout when what the customer really wanted was, say, ribs.

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Aging Out and Owning Up

12.09.2012

So once again I’m asking myself: what do I want to be when I grow up? Or, more correctly, as I grow old?

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Saving Gracie: a review of the 21st century feminist novel

12.06.2012

“Too much freedom is starting to feel as bad as not enough. Why did I jump on the Liberation train without asking where it would take me?”

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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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Hello, my name is Jane and this is my blog

11.24.2012

Welcome back to me and to you and to anyone else who cares to join us. We are making the most of midlife together–because that’s the only way I know how to do it.

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Dateline: Los Angeles

11.19.2012

We’re both glad to be in LA. Even though the news that the lowest gas price in California is in Sacramento was a bit of a blow. Figures, we both said with a sigh. Mostly there seems to be a lot to do, to see, to figure out, to try out since we last lived here seven years ago.

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