midlife relationships

Sex and the Midlife Mother: Taking the Teachable Moment

04.19.2010

We talk about modeling behavior for children and teens, but the assumption is that young adults no longer need such teaching. I believe they do.

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Online dating: Stories from the Front Lines

03.12.2010

Bud asked if I liked spanking. Mike’s first email was an erotic story. The artist guy took me out to brunch then turned out to be penniless.

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Valentine’s Day 2010: Table For One, Please

02.11.2010

Last year I wasn’t dating anyone. I don’t recall right now how I spent that day, probably with my head in a bottle of wine- red, of course. Celebrating some form of self love, hopefully. But I was probably bemoaning my fate as a single woman…

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Going Home–While You Still Can

02.01.2010

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!

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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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A Cougar Moment

01.10.2010

When we were introduced, I felt SOMETHING. Slightly muted, but it was there. Chemistry, perhaps, smothered in a few coats of dust

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Wednesday Writer’s Workshop: Writing as a Relationship

01.06.2010

“Patricia Highsmith….lost her form. The problem wasn’t the supposed confines of crime writing, but her increasing refusal–in love and in work–to let a relationship happen. And art is always about relationship–to the material, to the self, and to the world in all its chaos and intrusion, its terror and its glory.” –Jeanette Winterson, review of [...]

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Dialectic: Poetry, Philosophy, Collage

11.16.2009

The walls of human understanding have various purposes, textures, designs. But their intent is often to keep something…safe from challenge and on-going discovery of the truth of inherent polarity.

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What is it about the libido and midlife?

04.27.2009

When I was young and juicy and single, I was really hot….Yet, here I am at 57, in pretty good shape for an old broad, menopausal to be sure, and yet I almost never even think of SEX. I can’t believe it.

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The Caregiver In MidLife : Where their needs end and yours begin

04.22.2009

Midlife is a time when our focus and our energies are shifting inward, yet now we have an additional responsibility. It’s easy to lose sight of ourselves during the process of taking care of aging parents.

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