midlife
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The Golden Age of 58
- January 23, 2020
- Posted by: Sharon Greenthal
- Category: midlife
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On a girls’ getaway (“girls” may be a questionable description of us) with 3 of my oldest and closest friends, I confessed that I was feeling a little confused about my upcoming 58th birthday. We were on our umpteenth trip together and staying at one of my friend’s condo on the beach. These are my
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Maybe You Can Call Me Granny Someday
- November 11, 2019
- Posted by: Sharon Greenthal
- Category: family, midlife
My grandmother lived to be 98 years old. For 23 years, there were four generations of us on my mother’s side of the family, until I was 50. We did not take this lightly–in fact, my grandmother, being the attention-loving person that she was, would gladly share this fact with anyone, any place we went.
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14 Memorable Books with Midlife Protagonists
- November 4, 2019
- Posted by: Sharon Greenthal
- Category: books, midlife
Reading has been a lifelong passion of mine, and I was happy to put together this list of books for the midlife-focused website, Considerable.com. I hope you’ll find something new to read, and if you enjoy, please share this list with your friends! 14 Memorable Books with Midlife Protagonists Please follow and like us:
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The Hair I Always Wanted
- March 22, 2019
- Posted by: Sharon Greenthal
- Category: midlife
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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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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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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How to Live at the Residence Inn
- February 5, 2018
- Posted by: Sharon Greenthal
- Category: midlife
Unlike Eloise, who lived at the Plaza Hotel in New York City and said, of hotel living: I absolutely love the Plaza! I have not expressed the same joy during my six weeks at the Residence Inn. It’s not because there’s anything terribly wrong with the Residence Inn in Bellevue, Washington. In fact, as Residence
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How to Keep From Getting Old
- January 29, 2018
- Posted by: Sharon Greenthal
- Category: midlife
Lunch with my girlfriends is never dull. Whichever group gathers for a bowl of pho or a sashimi lunch (salad and miso soup included), there are always things – big, thought-provoking things – to talk about. There are little things, too, but it’s those big things that we all take home with us and think