Sharing Midlife Stories

A conversation about the joys and challenges of MIDLIFE TRANSITIONS

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Submit a GUEST BLOG post! Email me your story of midlife transition. Once a month I will select a story to SHARE with our community!

List of posts

  • Let’s share our stories

    Let’s share our stories

    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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  • NY Times — Modern Love — “I’ll Get by With a Little Help From my Herd”

    By Betsy Cornwall. I’m reposting Betsy’s column because —though it is a story of a younger woman — it is a message I hope to spread with this blog. That if we create a “herd,” (I prefer “tribe”), share our stories, our fears, our challenges, even online, even among strangers, we can support and embolden

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  • Conversation with Midlife Mentor Helene Stelian

    I hope you will check out this conversation my sister — Paula Brand — and I had with the wonderful midlife mentor Helene Stelian. Paula and I both published books the same day! They seem so different: Paula’s book is a fantastic guide to help women through midlife career transition; mine a two-book romance novel

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  • A Letter to My 40-Something Self

    When I was promoting my new book series: A Midlife Romance, I was asked to write — as a guest blog post— a letter to myself at a different age. I choose to write to the self I was about 10 years ago. Ten years goes by fast, and with each new decade the horizon

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