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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 Mercury In Retrograde Or What?
Sorry for my two week absence. Last week was a mess, no other way to describe it. Not as much for me as for people around me, but still it was one of those weeks where you begin to wonder if we are truly beginning the wind down to the 2012 end of...
The Worst Midlife Conversation In The World: Dad’s Driving
Ugh, one of the worst midlife conversations to have must be the one you have with a parent who really shouldn’t be driving anymore. It’s too easy to imagine yourself in their shoes, depending on other people to do anything outside the house, un...
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...
Cohousing For Community And Aging In Place
I had the wonderful opportunity to visit with Craig Ragland, Executive Director of the US CoHousing Association. I don’t want to sound like a broken record, but I am LOVING learning about this concept. The more I learn the more intrigued I am! ...
Midwives And Doulas To The Dying
I spent part of last weekend at a conference for women called Remarkable Women. It was very well organized and clearly the organizers put heart and soul into it. While I learned some great things and met a lot of wonderful women, one of the sessi...
Alzheimer's and Caregiving
One of my fellow mid-life lady bloggers, Karen over at Mid-life's a Trip, has some excellent blog posts related to caregiving and Alzheimer's. As caregiver to her mother who has Alzheimer's, and dear friend to a 50 something woman with the disease, ...
Eldercare: Auditing Documents
In the Wall Street Journal this morning, I came across a column by a personal finance person who was describing his personal experience trying to help his mother, grandmother and great aunt manage their finances.A couple of useful thoughts caught my ...
