Category: middle age
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No “Back to School”
I was shopping and back to school signs hung everywhere. Here in New York, students return next week. I miss the former life season of fresh notebooks and the beginning of fall sports. I knew I’d miss it when I was in it. I knew I’d miss the rhythm of…
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Rarely Out Late, Home by 8!
Since the nest has emptied, if we go out for dinner, it’s (usually) around 5pm-6pm. If we dine with friends with less job flexibility, we happily make reservations for 7pm or 8pm. Key word: reservations. While it’s healthier to eat earlier, for me it’s about not waiting for a table…
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Does Stillness Equal Laziness? A Good Question for the Summer Months
Even at mid-life (aka: knowing better), I sometimes struggle with this hard-to-break axiom: being still is unproductive.
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Poem Published on Spillwords Press
I just returned to NY from traveling and was a day late coming home, not checking my Gmail while away. I was thrilled and truly thankful that a poem I submitted on May 2nd was published on May 9th. I am sincerely grateful to Dagmara K. for selecting my poem…
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The Preschool Library Years – National Library Week
The library is one of the few spaces where time slows. American culture tends to resist a slow pace of life. Unhurried feels less productive.
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My Invisible Iron Man Suit
The last thing she needs is the suited-up version of yet another person. Covered. Closed-off…
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You’re Middle Age When…Searching for Spectacles
You are middle age when… while searching for your reading glasses, you look like a third-base MLB coach giving signals! Tapping pants pockets, your shirt, your head… even your ears, looking for where you left them!
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Ripped and Well-Worn for $128
I like clothes shopping. My oldest daughter and I firmly believe that a couple hours amid pretty things is a great way to decompress and lift our mood. This is especially true when the skies are 10-days of gray, accompanied by weeks of below freezing temperatures. The last time my…
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Mom, I Wish I Knew You Young
When I was out of town, my son and his fiancée stopped at the house to pick up old family videos. I’m sure they thought it would be fun to see my son as a toddler, running the coastline in a swim diaper while on vacation. Before I could even…
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Christmas Shopping With a Paper Check?!
I can’t recall why my husband and I were discussing shopping via the Sears and JCPenney Christmas catalogs back in the “1990’s”, but we were – in front of our 27-year young daughter. If you are under 45 years old, you may not know what these thick Christmas books looked…
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Can a Few Lone Retailers Survive? Not If They Keep Bothering Us
This is the second of three December-themed Throw-Back-Thursdays. Today’s post was originally published on this blog in 2018. MLM The bricks and mortar stores that try to sell an actual experience are still doing relatively well in the era where Amazon and other online retailers threaten store fronts across America.…
Tales from a Mid-Lifer 