Midlife Musings, Midriff Expansion (weight gain), Chronicles of Midlife Coming of Age and a few other things
This was the post I put together when I discovered my blog was infected. I posted it to my writer’s group blog but in case you didn’t get to read it and with Dad’s 80th birthday coming up, I thought I’d share it here.
Yesterday I bundled up without regard for fashion or vanity to spend [...]
Grief doesn’t keep a schedule. It doesn’t look in and ask: “is this an okay day for you? Cuz if it isn’t, I can come back another time.” Grief pretty much comes by when it needs to. I guess.
I knew this was coming and I thought I had it worked out. [...]
A woman’s body expands at the mid-section during middle age and not in a way that is charming like a pregnancy. I’ve tried for years to accept this thickening philospohically. The fact of the matter is that no matter how much I wax poetic about accumulated wisdom, a broadened perspective or even the [...]
My friend Derba was in my kitchen the other day. Her name is actually Debra, but I found it humorous one day to switch the r and the b around to make it Derba. Fortunately for me, she actually thinks that I’m funny when I do this sort of thing which is one of the [...]
It feels different this year, even though it is not all that different than other years. Katie graduated from UW Madison on May 16th. Shannon graduated from North Central College on June 13th. We had an open house gathering of family and friends Jun14th and later that evening, Shannon, with her little red Honda [...]
I know it has been a while, which is why I will speak to the second topic first. I’ve not had any energy to speak of these recent weeks – not depression, although not having any energy can get me down a bit – just an indescribable level of fatigue/exhaustion that I haven’t been able [...]
Katie Mahoney is 23 years old today. She’s not happy about that, the number 23 that is. It’s a prime number. She doesn’t like them; she thinks that they’re uninteresting and difficult to work with. (God, whose daughter is she? That would be me, the one with the whimsy that finds personification in everything.)
This [...]
March 13th
I am here. The funk has lifted. It is warm. It is a little humid. If feels good to be in lighter clothing. It feels good to have a cup of morning coffee on the front porch swing.
March 14th
This morning the site of my reflection in the blank screen of my laptop as I [...]
You probably expected to see this post early Monday morning, as I also fully expected to have it completed. This year’s Oscar celebration had a lot of elements that were rushed, but by 9pm Sunday all the rush was gone out of me and as of today, Wednesday afternoon, I still have a tender [...]
My friend, Jean, and I got together for a movie this past Thursday. This was good for several of reasons: we haven’t seen each other since before Christmas, we would be able to get one of the Oscar nominees knocked off our list, and we would be able to have coffee and catch up [...]