midlife
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Everyone I Know is a Grandmother Except Me
- January 14, 2021
- Posted by: Sharon Greenthal
- Category: midlife
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I am very happy to have this essay published on The Ethel, one of AARP’s newest publications. “Grandmothering has been quite successful in my life, and I am ready to begin my grandmothering experience. There’s just one little problem….” I hope you will click the link above and enjoy!
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How to Make a Difference
- June 3, 2020
- Posted by: Sharon Greenthal
- Category: midlife
We have been bored.We have been scared.We have been frustrated.We have been angry. The tedium of being at home during the last 3 months has been, at times, unbearable. But now I am embarrassed that I ever complained about not being able to go and do and see and buy and travel and blah blah
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How I’m Living Now – Part 2
- April 28, 2020
- Posted by: Sharon Greenthal
- Category: midlife
We are running out of things to talk about. All of us. The other day I texted a group of friends: Hi. That’s it, that’s all I have to say today. They were all equally as boring as I was. I love my friends, really I do. There’s just nothing, absolutely nothing, new to talk
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The Golden Age of 58
- January 23, 2020
- Posted by: Sharon Greenthal
- Category: midlife
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
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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