Dear Reader: this is your chance to share your back-to-school tips with us. Sending children back to school and/or college? Going back to school yourself? We will be posting many tip blogs, for every possible back-to-school need! We’d love to hear from you!
by Andrea Lynn
Leaving the soccer field last night, Claire said “I want to have a daddy.” Yeek! It was boiling hot, we were all exhausted, Anna was whining and crying her way to the car. I was carrying the folding chairs, the bag, the water. I had no energy for this kind of discussion. Not to mention the setting of the parking lot was not as I’d hoped. […]
by Rosemary Lichtman, Ph.D., and Phyllis Goldberg, Ph.D.
The full range of female athletes on the Olympic teams makes it clear that age and family responsibilities are not the barriers to participation in the Games they used to be. Even before the London Olympics begin in 2012, stories from the 2008 Olympics in Beijing highlight the courage and resolve of the mothers of the world – as they demonstrate their athletic prowess and win gold or silver medals. […]
The new 37-year-old CEO of Yahoo has recently disclosed her pregnancy, igniting a firestorm surrounding the topic of midlife motherhood and the conundrum for women working in a male-dominated industry. Read more in:
http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2012/jul/17/yahoo-ceos-pregnancy-reignites-a-perennial
by Jane Samuel
Four years ago, I naively walked through the life of a middle-aged woman with not much thought to the loss of a parent, let alone the loss of my mother. Then the dominoes in our lives began to line up, teeter and fall – some swiftly, some slowly, all painfully. […]
by Rosemary Lichtman Ph.D. and Phyllis Goldberg Ph.D.
Given your limited budget, have you made any plans for a family vacation? Any time of year, a low cost getaway can create memories to cherish. But for some Sandwiched Boomers, squeezed between caring for growing children and aging parents, the choices may be slim. […]
by Dr. Barb Depree, M.D.
In our little roundup of sexually transmitted infections, maybe you’ve noticed that many of them have no symptoms, and others mimic common illnesses like the flu or a urinary tract infection.
The take-away? There’s no way to know if you’re carrying an STI without getting tested. And there’s no way to prevent reinfection unless your partner gets tested, too. […]
by Valerie Gillies
And I would run away
I would run away, yeah…, yeah
I would run away
I would run away with you
Cause I am falling in love with you
No never I’m never gonna stop
Falling in love with you
The Corrs “Runaway”
I use music like a pyromaniac uses gasoline. It’s a mood accelerant. Sad? I can be sadder in a flash. Elated? Romantic? Hyper? There’s a tune for just about everything. Technological improvements, like the iPod I can’t quite master, caused me to misplace some of my favorite tunes. How appropriate it was that I found the loaded CD holder yesterday, the first of my 48 days of summer. I popped in Runaway and was swept back nearly 20 years, late at night after all four chicken pox ridden children had finally collapsed, my lover and I falling into each other’s arms in the dim light, and slow dancing around the kitchen. I don’t dance. But I did. And it felt so good that my mind captured it like the rare prize that it was, and beautifully stored it in sensurround. […]
by Rachel Snyder
There comes a time when it is no longer enough
to seek out the transformative life.
There comes a time to listen deeply and to say Yes!
to the faintest inklings of your heart.
That is the time when you become a creator in your own right.
When you answer the Call without reservation and with fulsome heart. […]