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This is not your Mom's Middle-age! I'm a snoop, and I'm a middle-aged woman. Put the two together and I blog about topics that are relevant to women who are redefining midlife. There's alot to cover since us Boomer have never been content to accept
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Is There Simplicity On The Other Side?
My life has been pretty simple for the past number of years. Single, no kids, parents still independent and since moving out of my house a couple of years ago to share a friend’s house, no big house upkeep responsibilities. I’m busy since I l...
How To Be Your Truest Self: A Conversation With Jan Lundy
As you might imagine, I have talked to a lot of women in their midyears. The question most on their minds is definitely “What do I want my life from here to look like?” But, a topic that is a close second, or maybe it’s actually connected i...
A Perfect Summer Event
EeGADS, it was HOT in Texas last week! If you can believe it (and I know those of you who were there DO!) it was a record 107 degrees on Thursday, the day of our Boggy Creek Farm celebration of food, drink and successful midlife makeovers! But that...
A Call To Action To Prevent Breast Cancer
MORE magazine just published an article by Dr. Susan Love about the $1 billion dollar stimulus package for the National Cancer Institute. Although she’s been in the field of cancer research for more than 30 years, she was still frustrated and surpr...
Tiny Texas Houses
OMG, y’all! I’m probably sounding like a broken record with my obsession with women’s colonies and my latest variation on that theme, a vintage trailer court. But, I just have to share this because it was such a delightful surprise! Tal...
Midlife Reinvention At The WomenBloom Trailer Court
OK, so the title and photo are really just continuing to put the idea out there. Just doing a little manifesting… You know, the thing that got me so jazzed about doing WomenBloom was that I was seeing all these midlife women around me doing...
Girlfriends Of The Blogosphere
Sometimes I feel like I’m in an alternate universe. Well, gee, I guess I am in a way if you count the ‘real’ world of face to face, and cyberspace, the world of blogs, Twitter and Facebook. It’s weird how you get to know someone in the cy...
A Women’s Colony And Vintage Trailer Court
Today I am feeling like I’d rather daydream than really apply my mind to hard core midlife issues. In fact, if you must know, my imagination has been hijacked by a subject that…well, I can apply this to midlife, of course, silly me. OK, if ...
And A Good Time Was Had By All
Wow! Did we ever have a great turnout for our second WomenBloom social! I surprised myself, the RSVPs just kept rolling in! We were quite a group of 35 or so on Fino’s patio and it was great to see all the mingling and connections happening a...
A Social Security Crisis Solution: National Live With Your Kids Month
I recently got into a rather vigorous discussion (we rarely have any other kind) with a Libertarian friend about the subject of social security. His contention is that by 2018, there will be major generational conflict over the increase in taxes ne...
Living In Community: Why Does This Idea Resonate So?
Last week one of our WomenBloomers put a note in the forums looking for women interested in the idea of living in community. Now, I have found that this is an idea that nearly ALWAYS gets people, not just women, excited. In fact, I went out with ...
First WomenBloom Social: Are We Cool Ladies Or What?
One of the most gratifying and flat FUN things about WomenBloom is the groovy women I get to meet. Last night, we had WomenBloom’s first social here in Austin. It was WomenBloom’s first birthday and so, a great excuse to invite some of our Aust...
Do Well By Doing Good
My good friend, Marny Lifshen, sent this thought-provoking piece to me the other day. She addresses the question of ‘what good have you done in the world this week?’ Yikes, er….. Exactly. Marny’s expertise and her passi...
The WomenBloom Community Hath Spoken - Survey Results!
A Big Ole Texas SHOUT OUT to those of you who completed my survey of a few weeks ago. Thanks so much, it was very helpful and interesting. I knew it would be. I promised to share the results as a way for all of you to know a little more about you...
Musings From A Leadership Perspective
As I watched the Inauguration Tuesday, I found myself hopeful and teary eyed, who couldn’t in the midst of all that? I’m as susceptible as the next person to being affected by the jubilance and emotions of millions of people around me. I can...
And The Winner Of Our Contest IS…
Whoopee! Claire Luna-Pinsker of Tobyhanna, PA won our Comment of the Month contest and has won one of Curlin’s darlin’ flowergal calendars for 2009 and an adorable WomenBloom mug. Our question was “What is your favorite holiday tradition?”...
Making Community At WomenBloom
I can hardly believe it. WomenBloom turns 1 year old this month, and it’s been a great year thanks to all of you! Like most of us at this time of year, I’ve been giving lots of thought to what I want to accomplish in 2009. It didn’t t...
