Watching My Waist
Mon, 8/03/10 – 13:55 | No Comment

Then came the earthquakes. A divorce, single motherhood, a bankruptcy. Bing, Bang. Boom. Even though I was an emotional wreck, I never ballooned to outrageous proportions. Still, for the first time in my life I had to shimmy into a girdle to control the overflow of tummy flesh. I was mortified.

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BabyBoomers, Gen X, and what’s my generation called? Oh yeah,
Tuesday, 22 Sep, 2009 – 17:36 | 8 Comments
BabyBoomers, Gen X, and what’s my generation called?  Oh yeah,

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.

Redefining Hot in the MidLife Dictionary
Tuesday, 18 Aug, 2009 – 12:21 | 7 Comments
Redefining Hot in the MidLife Dictionary

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.com: Our Mission Statement
Sunday, 5 Jul, 2009 – 14:55 | 2 Comments
MidLifeBloggers.com:  Our Mission Statement

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.

Today’s Creativity Comes From Yesterday’s Experience
Monday, 2 Mar, 2009 – 18:16 | 2 Comments
Today’s Creativity Comes From Yesterday’s Experience

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.

Benign Neglect or What?
Sunday, 9 Nov, 2008 – 12:39 | 11 Comments

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 …

Adopting At MidLife: Finding An Agency
Thursday, 30 Oct, 2008 – 13:56 | No Comment

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 …

Waiting for Mr. Goodbar–or vice versa…at MidLife
Tuesday, 28 Oct, 2008 – 11:44 | 3 Comments

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 …

MidLife? There Are Some Things We Do Like Hotter
Sunday, 26 Oct, 2008 – 19:21 | One Comment

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 …

Color this post Pink: A Midlife Cancer Survivor Remembers Her First Day Back at Work
Friday, 17 Oct, 2008 – 12:20 | 7 Comments

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 …

On Money: MidLife Mommyblogger Meltdown
Tuesday, 14 Oct, 2008 – 1:01 | 4 Comments

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 …

Motherhood At MidLife
Friday, 10 Oct, 2008 – 13:58 | One Comment

I’m not talking about mothering at midlife, raising the kids that you had when you were in your twenties or thirties.  I’m talking about becoming a mother at midlife.  According to Newsweek, the number of …

Birth of a MidLife Blogger
Wednesday, 8 Oct, 2008 – 12:40 | 6 Comments

by Karen Batchelor of MidLife’s A Trip
I am a relative “newbie” on the blogging scene.  Oh, I’d heard of blogs.  But 1 ½ years ago if you had asked me to describe blogging, I would …