Category: 40-Something
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The TV Show The Middle is Funny. Everything Else “Middle”… Not So Much.
Sure we all like the show The Middle. But I like little else involving “The Middle”. How about you? Middle Age is surprisingly everything everyone older than me said it was. There really are aches and pains when you wake up in the morning. You really do notice that…
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Mom, were you EVER a kid?!
Whenever I don’t laugh at something my 16-year old son thinks is funny, he asks me if I was EVER a kid. Just last week he told a friend that he believes Grandma delivered me as a “grown up”. The truth is, somewhere along the parenting-teens years, I have admittedly…
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Choose My Battles?
Last week my husband suggested that I more carefully “choose battles” with my twin 16-year olds. Spending so much time together during the summer apparently had me criticizing them about “stupid things”. While I might have dismissed my husband’s comment ;), I was convicted while reading a statement from Ruth…
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My Empty-Bucket List
For many years, I’ve conducted an activity with my college students, asking them to create their own version of the famous “Bucket List”. I warn them that the list should not include professional goals necessarily, but rather focus upon the “really neat”, “exciting”, “extraordinary”, places, events, activities, etc., that they…
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My face through my son’s hockey helmet…
My son’s wide, blue eyes beamed through the cage of his hockey helmet, and I noticed he was really looking at me. I was standing over him in the Emergency Room, as he lay on a stretcher, still in full uniform from the concussion he suffered an hour earlier. He…
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The Teen Boys Sleepover
Half of my 16 year-old son’s hockey team slept over last week. With one eye on Iron Man 2 and the other checking their Instagram feed, they laid throughout the family room, with potato chips and soda bottles strewn everywhere. Unlike when my daughters’ have girlfriends sleep over, I was…
Tales from a Mid-Lifer 