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The Hair I Always Wanted
- March 22, 2019
- Posted by: Sharon Greenthal
- Category: midlife
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In 1978, there was no fashion love for straight-haired women. Every where you looked, curls and Afros ruled—big, haloed heads, bobbing up and down, all sassy and free and wild. I was obsessed with getting a perm. It started with Barbra Streisand in “A Star is Born,” her formerly ordinary long hair a mass of
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Is Anyone Listening?
- March 13, 2019
- Posted by: Sharon Greenthal
- Category: empty nest
When I was raising my kids, at the end of the last century, there was a lot of chatter in my life. Right before the explosion of the internet, texting, and email, so much of my time was spent talking to other people. If I wanted to order something from the Nordstrom catalog, I had
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Invisible But Not Unseen at Midlife
- March 5, 2019
- Posted by: Sharon Greenthal
- Category: midlife
Any discussion of middle age women is incomplete without touching on the fact – not the feeling, the concept, or the belief – but the fact that at some point in our lives, we become invisible to the world. As our youth disappears, these things may happen: our boobs droop and our hair thins, our
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Why Every Woman Needs Friends
- February 25, 2019
- Posted by: Sharon Greenthal
- Category: midlife
For women, friendships with other women are as important and life-sustaining — if not more so — than relationships with men. From the beginning of our socialization, we are focused on finding other females to bond with in significant and ego-affirming ways. Who among us didn’t have a best friend at some point or another
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The Search for Satisfaction
- February 11, 2019
- Posted by: Sharon Greenthal
- Category: midlife
My fellow blogger and writer Jen Mann recently wrote about her midlife crisis and the need to talk about her generalized sadness and dissatisfaction with where she is at this point. Coming from someone who is a humor writer with a huge following and many published books, I am sure that her revelation that she
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I Don’t Need Kondo-ing
- January 13, 2019
- Posted by: Sharon Greenthal
- Category: Uncategorized
I don’t need Marie Kondo. I’m already there.
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Drive, She Said
- December 30, 2018
- Posted by: Sharon Greenthal
- Category: marriage
One of the best days of my life was the day I got my driver’s license when I turned 16. After passing the test, I drove my mother home and took off in her massive Buick LeSabre that easily seated 7 people I was alone in that car, rock music blaring, windows wide open–it was
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That Moment When…
- September 6, 2018
- Posted by: Sharon Greenthal
- Category: midlife
It doesn’t take much to get to me these days. There are little moments that knock at my heart like tiny little baby fists, not particularly painful but still palpable. I can never be sure when one of these moments will float by like a dust mite or take up residence in my mind, pushing
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The Books I’ve Loved in 2018
- August 14, 2018
- Posted by: Sharon Greenthal
- Category: books
One of the worst things about having chronic headaches was how difficult it was for me to read books. Not even difficult – nearly impossible, especially in the year before my surgery. Every so often I would plow through a book that really captured my attention (Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng, for example), but
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The Day I Damn Near Lost My Mind
- May 28, 2018
- Posted by: Sharon Greenthal
- Category: Uncategorized
Even though there’s rarely anything interesting or unexpected, I still love to get the mail. A magazine, a package from Amazon, even a packet of coupons from my grocery store – it’s like when I was a kid and would grab the prize in the cereal box before my little brother could get it. Though