…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.

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.

I’m also poking fun at myself for being conflicted about no longer being hot–-hot in the sense that people who didn’t already know that I was “beautiful on the inside” thought I was hot.

MidLifeBloggers is more of a boutique, a salon of sorts, offering well-written, thoughtful, provocative posts (be they prose, poetry, or visual arts) on each and every issue–big and small, real and imagined–that any one of us is experiencing as we are wending our way through this period in our lives.

My blog is a collection of memories and stories about my relationship with my wonderful and eccentric aunt and the summers I spent with her. My aunt, a major influence in my life, inspired my love of jewelry. This blog is my tribute to her.

I used to have a dream in which I have given birth to a baby, a wanted baby, but then I forget to take care of it.  I put it in a bassinette somewhere or …

by Liz of Inventing My Life
On Saturday I went to an information session for Wide Horizons for Children, an adoption agency; today I filled out their registration form and will drop it in the mail …

by Darryle Pollack of I Never Signed Up For This

We’re in the final countdown. Only a few days left. The signs are everywhere I look, and I’m starting to feel the pressure and …

by Mark of Going Like Sixty
Somebody and/or something is changing.  My wife, Nancy, left Thursday on a knitting/fiber jaunt.  She’ll return soon, but in the meantime, she made up a crockpot full of chili for …

It’s Just Another Hill, Baby
by  Pseudonymous Teacher  of Phhhst
In October of 2006 I returned to the classroom following a six month leave for breast cancer treatments.  My first day back to work presented …