reinvention

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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Giving Voice to the Menoblahs

02.01.2011

I was one of those women who actually looked forward to menopause. I could not wait for the freedom and the neatness, for clear skin, and a steady weight.

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Downsizing Your New Year’s Resolutions

01.06.2011

[B]ig plans or ideas can loom so large that they can block the view of the little things behind them— which in the long run are sometimes just as significant or satisfying.

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Thoughts for the New Year: Imagination and Spirituality

12.31.2010

…Active Imagination in which you actively engage with the images that rise up in your mind and dialogue with them….can be amazingly eye-opening.

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Planning For The Rest of My Life

10.25.2010

Part of that personal plan is going to address my new status as a single woman. I’ve been here several times in recent years and one would think I’d have the whole without a man thing firmly in control by now. Alas.

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My Formerly Hot Life: First the Blog, Now the Book

08.11.2010

And I’m laughing, snorting even, in that not-so-subtle way that demands you ask me, “what’s so funny?”

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The Rest of Our Life is Looking A Lot Longer Now

03.22.2010

Remember my  post a couple of years back about our age versus developmental stage?  Sunday’s New York Times had an article that cut right to the heart of it.  We’re living a hell of a lot longer.  Retirement is not an option, for some because of finances and for others, just because.  So what do [...]

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Pink-slipped in Midlife: Who do you turn to?

09.30.2009

Here she was — the latest in the string of middle-aged women laid off, retired, let go, fired, since the economy nose-dived last year.

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How To Survive Change You Didn’t Ask For

08.27.2009

The only thing any of us can know for certain is that life will continue to change at a rapid pace because the world has gotten more complex and interdependent.

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Midlife Crisis and Reinvention

08.06.2009

“Your right to throw a punch stops at my face.” I remember hearing this expression years ago as a basic definition of freedom in the United States. I thought of it more recently when I read Jon Gosselin’s plea for public understanding of his romances and his new career as a clothing designer so soon after [...]

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