Posted in Family, Older women, On getting older, tagged guilt, unfaithful husbands on May 25, 2008 | 19 Comments »
It isn’t simply that I am eating misery, and little else, for breakfast, lunch and dinner these days, but also that it is eating me.
From the moment I gain consciousness in the morning, the awareness that the fact that the life I had been living so happily is over, gone for good, forces itself down [...]
Posted in Family, Island life, On getting older, tagged Friends on May 8, 2008 | 7 Comments »
While I’ve been spending the past two months in the Mark-induced horror of betrayal and deceit, others in my life have been experiencing such wonderful wonders of life, and although they are deeply sympathetic, they are not, thankfully, having their happiness dented in any way by my misery.
My dear friend, George, who is actually the [...]
Posted in Celebrities, Celebs, On getting older on December 8, 2007 | 4 Comments »
The day the music died may have been in 1959, but twenty-seven years ago today the world lost not only one of the most brilliant and creative musical minds in modern history, but a bit of its soul and a lot of its conscience.
December 8, 1980 was the day Mark Chapman shot and killed John [...]
Posted in NaBloPoMo, Older women, On getting older on November 17, 2007 | 2 Comments »
I don’t know if it’s a Boomer thing, an island thing, or just a thing with people I choose to have conversations with, but I don’t know anyone who lies about their age.
Okay, I don’t know any ADULTS who lie about their age. That is more accurate because I do occasionally run into the four-year-old [...]
Posted in Adoption, Adoption Advocacy, Angelina Jolie, International Adoption, Island life, NaBloPoMo, Older women, On getting older, Younger men on November 15, 2007 | 2 Comments »
There are topics arrayed before me like so many tubs of ice cream at a Ben & Jerry’s, some even looking as potentially tasty as Chunky Monkey, but I haven’t the energy to dip.
You see, I’ve already written almost 2000 bloggity blog words … 1,811 to be precise… on three blogs, and although I [...]
Posted in Adoption, Older women, On getting older, WTF?, Writing for a living, Younger men on July 11, 2007 | 3 Comments »
If you don’t already know this, I’ll share that one of the pro blogs I write is on the topic of adopting as an older parent.
Since I’m about to turn fifty-six and have a 4.75-year-old and a 2-year-old, I’m qualified to write about being a geezer mom. I try very hard not to make that [...]
Posted in American thoughts, Celebs, On getting older on June 6, 2007 | 5 Comments »
I can remember where I was the first time I saw and heard Sgt. Pepper. I’m not going into any detail about stances … neither circum nor sub … but I’ll admit to a drummer named Charlie and some really pretty colors that drifted around as “Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds” premiered in my [...]
Posted in On getting older on May 9, 2007 | No Comments »
I’ve been accused of being Maude-like in a “Harold and Maude” sort of way, given my proclivity for younger men and a grab-the-brass-ring tendency to jettison stuff and security when something wonderful floats by, but in reality I can only dream of emulating the late, great Ruth Gordon’s rendition of the tiny larger-than-life character that [...]
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