We’re becoming more and more accepting of a whole host of different lifestyles; so why are single midlifers still treated like the odd ones out? Read more from Marie on her blog. Today, gay and transgendered people are not gaining acceptance passively; they are demanding it. Read the comments section of any online article, and you’ll …
Marie Hickman finally hit a “milestone” she’d been successfully avoiding for over 50 years. Read more from Marie on her blog. I have always been the kind of woman who plunges fearlessly ahead. Well into my 40s I journeyed to foreign countries alone. As the older mom of a younger child, I played a version of …
I left my 12-year-old son in my neighborhood grocery store’s parking lot for ten minutes. Yes, it was in Florida, but we’re talking late afternoon in the winter, no more than 70 degrees. The doors were locked and he was playing on his phone. And he was 12. Some woman called the police. A …
Raising a child and re-entering the dating pool … all over the age of 50? Marie Hickman admits it’s not always easy! Read more from Marie on her blog. My Facebook feed reveals my high school classmates are going off on college admissions trips with their youngest children, cuddling first grandchildren, celebrating silver anniversaries on safari. Meanwhile, …
