midlife

Birth of a MidLife Blogger

10.08.2008

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 have been speechless.  And that doesn’t happen to me often. My baby steps into blogging came as the result [...]

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The Art of Procrastination

09.16.2008

by Darryle Pollack of  I Never Signed Up For This The perfect title for my blog.  Art.   Procrastination.  The connection between them.  But honestly I don’t even know where to start. Should I start with the fact that there have been photos of mosaics on my blog since day one?  But I’ve been procrastinating and [...]

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The spice of life

08.07.2008

by Celeste Lindell of Average Jane Because I have no children and thus will never be a grandmother, it seems appropriate that I got a lot of my sterotypically grandmotherly behavior out of the way when I was a teenager. I distinctly remember a visit from my best friend spent sitting side by side, quietly [...]

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My Role Model for Midlife

07.31.2008

by Celeste Lindell, of Average Jane When I was growing up, I used to think my mother spent all her time deliberately trying to embarrass me. It wasn’t until I started becoming more like her that I realized she was just living life on her own terms. From the stories I heard about my mother’s [...]

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Are you a Shadow Boomer?

07.08.2008

We’ve all heard of baby boomers, defined as the generation of people born between the years 1946 and 1965 when young couples who postponed having children during the World War II finally started their families. According to authors Matt Thornhill and John Martin, this group currently numbers some 78 million people ages 44 to 65. [...]

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Climbing that Ladder to a Satisfying MidLife

06.22.2008

by Karen Batchelor of Midlife’s a Trip I used to think I was on the proverbial “ladder of success”.  I had the corporate job that many people dream of.  But I wasn’t living in sync with my life purpose and values and my personal life was shoved into a corner.  I had this nagging feeling [...]

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Average Jane Is Never Too Old to Rock and Roll If She’s Too Young To Die

06.19.2008

by Celeste Lindell of Average Jane The fact that I paraphrased my post title from a Jethro Tull song probably tips you off that I’m past the age of being mistaken for the next teen sensation. Be that as it may, I’ve never given up my passion for music – particularly hard rock. I sing [...]

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Sex and The City: Does It Work as a Midlife Tale?

06.11.2008

by Ms Meta of Metafootnotes ByJane, the Godmother of MidLifeBloggers, whacked tapped me gently with her magic wand, and I am called to do her bidding. Says she, of the film debut of Sex and the City: The Movie, “I keep coming across all these comments about how Carrie’s in her ’40s and Samantha’s in [...]

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How can you tell the difference between a midlife crisis and shaking the dust from your feet?

06.09.2008

by The Duchess, of Duchess Omnium I guess my bare details look like a classic case of the former. Two years ago I put my house in rural Oxfordshire, my home for 23 years, on the market. Returning from a consolatory weekend in Paris (oh poor, poor pitiful me), I wept when I saw the [...]

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