midlife

Walking Manhattan: From the East River to the Hudson

05.07.2012

I just couldn’t stop. Looks like I walked a total of 60+ blocks today.

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Walking Manhattan: Leftover Work, Subways, and a Reality Check

05.04.2012

The subways and I are going to have to come to terms.

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Walking Manhattan: Gay Pride

04.30.2012

Once thing I love about New Yorkers is that they are open to differences, they embrace change and they celebrate personal freedom.

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Walking Manhattan: a thirty day diary

04.28.2012

So my first walk was in my own neighborhood, the West Village. This was a great neighborhood to start in because it’s so diverse.

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Embracing Ourselves at Fifty

04.20.2012

It’s so easy, here at middle age, to begin to pine for our youth, to have regrets, to think we missed the mark, to beat up on our younger selves.

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Remembering….and Not

03.18.2012

Similarly, I refuse to join in the pity party about how badly our culture treats the not-young. Yeah, yeah, yeah, ageism exists. As does sexism, racism, and all the other isms that are hallmarks of humanity.

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MidLifeBloggers: Defining the Brand

03.12.2012

So if I’m a brand and parenting is not a part of my brand, then what and who and why am I?

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Taking Root in Provence: a book excerpt & a recipe

06.10.2011

All social life takes place around the table, where one talks about food above all else. Recipes are exchanged, addresses offered, and recommendations made…Now, what are you going to serve with that? Soupe au pistou? Excellent idea.

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Spring Cleaning

03.15.2010

…the spider’s lair—a scary place. It’s where the wild things are! A quick inventory of the small room reveals stacked boxes from my original move, photo albums, luggage, books, rolls of wrapping paper, framed artwork, and who knows what else.

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BabyBoomers, Gen X, and what’s my generation called? Oh yeah,

09.22.2009

George Clooney, Nadia Comaneci, Lady Diana, Michael J Fox, Heather Locklear, Julia Luis-Dreyfus, Jeff Probst, Meg Ryan, and of course Barack Obama – all born in 1961.

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