Battling Irrelevance: Finding a New Path
I recently shared with a friend that I felt irrelevant. What led to that conclusion was a year of tremendous upheaval. I left my university teaching job, sold my…
Why Are So Many Women Self-Destructing?
As I was drinking my morning coffee while surfing the latest headlines, I paused mid-sip when I saw “Life Expectancy Drops for White Women” in health news from NPR. This…
Untethered
I was Skyping with a friend I hadn’t spoken to in quite some time the other day. When she asked me how I was doing, I struggled to find the…
Grieving on planes
I seem to do much grieving on planes. Perhaps that’s because whenever I receive very bad news, it usually means getting on the first flight I can book in order…
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Reinvention
As I drove away from my children yesterday, leaving them to begin their new journey as college students, I knew I would cry and be an emotional wreck. That was a…
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Learning to be Still
Everything in my world is changing. My entire universe is shifting. There is much ‘leaving’ going on. I am leaving behind academia after 25 years, and stepping off the treadmill…
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Successful Aging
Perhaps because I am part of the demographic, and I have been sensing a tremendous shift in my priorities since turning fifty, all of my research of late has…
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Reclaiming Ourselves at Midlife
Lately it seems that everywhere I turn, in real life and in fiction, I come face to face with women who are struggling with the harsh realities of midlife.…
Transitions
I am reaching a definite point of transition in my life. My children (twins) are 18, seniors in high school. They are elbow deep into college applications, and the excitement…