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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BlogHer’09: The Good, the Bad, and the Meh
Friday, 31 Jul, 2009 – 18:16 | 22 Comments
BlogHer’09:  The Good, the Bad, and the Meh

[They] founded BlogHer with four purposes in mind: exposure, community, education, and economic empowerment for women bloggers. I think the economic empowerment head is now leading the beast.

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.

BlogHer ‘09
Monday, 23 Feb, 2009 – 15:54 | 11 Comments
BlogHer ‘09

Yes, I am. Because I’m speaking…Yes, I am. At the session…
LifeBlogging Outside the Lines: When You’re not a Geek, a Political Wonk or a MommyBlogger.

Both Sides Now — Then — and Tomorrow
Wednesday, 11 Feb, 2009 – 15:56 | No Comment

In lieu of a new post today, I’m sending you all over to BlogHer to read Nordette’s post on Joni Mitchell as her midlife muse. I want you to read it, because I can’t readily …

Memories of Israel The Last Time
Tuesday, 30 Dec, 2008 – 15:49 | 2 Comments

by Laura of Rebellious Thoughts of A Woman

The following are a couple of difficult memories of life in Israel. Difficult, because, really, why can’t the Jews just be left alone in their own little country …

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 …

Visual Artists: A Call For Submissions
Wednesday, 27 Aug, 2008 – 12:01 | 3 Comments

MidLifeBloggers continues to grow and evolve and become its own thing.  Right now the Orange Tent seems to be sheltering a lot of writers, and that’s good.  That’s the way I meant it to be.  …

MidLifers still talking on BlogHer
Friday, 25 Jul, 2008 – 10:33 | No Comment

We interrupt this program to bring you the news that there is a terrific discussion going on over at BlogHer on midlife issues.  It’s a continuation of the ever-lentgthening dialogues started by Ms. Meta back …

MidLifeBloggers.com at BlogHer’08 – A Room of Your Own
Wednesday, 23 Jul, 2008 – 16:34 | 8 Comments
MidLifeBloggers.com at BlogHer’08 – A Room of Your Own

To be honest, I tried not to think about what the Room of Your Own (ROYO) might turn out to be.   I’m too much a child of the ‘60 and ’70s, when we knew (and …

MidLifeBloggers @ BlogHer’08
Tuesday, 15 Jul, 2008 – 22:14 | 6 Comments
MidLifeBloggers @ BlogHer’08

Did we ever think that the third weekend in July would come?  I didn’t, but here it is.  Will we see you there???
The MidLifeBloggers Birds of a Feather Room of Your Own Meetup–or whatever they’re …

If you’re going to BlogHer…
Monday, 30 Jun, 2008 – 20:23 | 6 Comments

…better wear some flowers in your hair.  Oh, right city, wrong century.  Whatever–
As I was saying, if you’re going to BlogHer’08, do come and hang with us at the MidLifeBloggers meetup.  It’s Friday, Day One, …

MidLifeBloggers at BlogHer’08
Tuesday, 3 Jun, 2008 – 15:24 | 4 Comments

Are you going? ‘Cause we are. And we’re having a scheduled Meetup all our own. Check the badge on the left out. You can get one of those too over at …