Check any magazine counter and you’ll find shelves full of articles about downsizing. An entire generation of baby boomers are discovering the freedom of owning less and doing more. We’re selling our four-bedroom family homes and 500-square foot houses or condos, trading in our expensive cars (and hefty payments) for RVs to travel the countryside, and […]
What Never to Say to Your Adult, Married Son
A recent Google search for articles on empty nest syndrome turned up almost 4 million posts. Apparently it’s a universal phenomena among the boomer generation. Our kids are leaving home, pursuing further education and careers, getting married, having our grandbabies, buying homes, and generally living life quite happily without our round-the-clock helicopter parenting. We’ve known from […]
Finding the Funny with Guest Blogger Denise Geelhart
Older Moms vs. Younger Moms By Denise Geelhart I’m a mom of a “certain age.” My first daughter was born when I was 39 and my second at 41. I didn’t plan it out that way. It just happened to take me longer to find the man I would marry. (Or, to be honest, one […]
Finding the Funny with Guest Blogger Liane Kupferberg Carter
When Mom “Likes” Too Much By Liane Kupferberg Carter Okay, I’m going out on a limb here. I’m a middle-aged mom and I love Facebook. And no, I’m not playing games like FarmVille, Kingdoms of Camelot or Mafia Wars. I love it for networking. So when “Saturday Night Live” recently aired a fake ad for […]
Mother’s Day and an Empty Nest. It’s All Good
I grew up with five siblings. Three older brothers and two sisters, one older and one younger. Mother’s Days were big, boisterous affairs, with kids either chipping in together to get Mom something expensive and fabulous, or competing with each other to see who come up with the most impressive and tear-inducing offering. Mom was adamant about […]
“Motherhood for Dummies.” Where Was THAT Book in 1989?
When I was 33, I had a baby. I also had no clue. Backing up a few weeks, I really, really wanted a baby. We tried for months (boxers instead of briefs, no hot tubs, counting ovulation cycles, and learning to sleep on my back with my legs in the air to keep the little […]
Mamas in Afghanistan. It Could Work
As summer rolls forward, it seems everyone’s talking about family vacation plans, including plans to send young offspring off to theme parks, famous campgrounds, and animated wonderlands with grandparents, giving moms and dads much-needed breaks to be adult couples instead of parents for 2 blissful weeks out of the year. When Jake was 6, we […]
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