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Welcome! I’m glad you are here, and chances are, if you’ve found this page, you’ve been through some things! Week by week I will share some of my own thoughts, experiences, hopes and joy related to midlife. I’m not here as any kind of expert. We don’t always need experts. We have our own stories
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After my last Mother’s Day “epiphany” post, it probably seemed like I kinda had things figured out. 😂😉 So, of course, you know what happened next… A few days after Mother’s Day, said living-at-home daughter had a second job, and, combined with the days she helps out her former boss at a small lunch cafe,
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Boomerang kids… Sandwich generation… Failure to launch… Midlife crisis…. On Mother’s Day 2023 — a Mother’s Day in my midlife — I feel many disparate (conflicting?) emotions. Though I have a “kid” (young adult) living with me, I was not at home to receive (possibly burnt) breakfast in bed. Instead, I spent the night at
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Thank you Carrie Accardi! Carrie — the parent of one of my daughter’s former school classmates — responded to my recent post about my struggling now-20-something daughter. I’ll get into the details below, but how wonderful to hear from someone I haven’t connected with in a while: “Stay strong and know that I consider you
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Unexpectedly, I have a 20-something living at home. Not sure how to feel, or exactly what to do, about that. How about you? I’ve described this blog as a place for sharing and support. This is where the rubber meets the road. I’m struggling. I suspect I’m not alone. I’m trying to do right by
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