The cock blockers were gone. I’d driven them at breakneck speed up to my mother’s in Santa Barbara. It was the first time in 12 years that my daughters would be away from home. Because the oldest is 12 and the youngest is 10. I barely slowed down, just drove by the curb and pushed …
There’s a couple that live in the house behind ours who are about our age and never had kids. Because of how the houses are situated and separated by fences, we don’t really share a neighborhood with them and we only see them from afar with the occasional wave and hello, but have never really …
When Philadelphians talk about going “down tha’ shore”, we mean any of the beach towns from the southern tip of New Jersey (Cape May), north through Long Beach Island. Any further north than that and you run the risk of entering a 7/11 and running into people wearing New York Giants and Yankees caps — enough …
Kim Tackett talks about the lessons of empty nest parenting. She’s the one learning lessons as she watches her college daughter grow and fly the nest. Read more from Kim on her blog, Fifty Fifty Vision She’s 20, and attending university in another state, 500 miles away. The same exact number of miles I traveled for my …
After dealing with the empty nest, there’s a crossroads of personal reinvention where midlife reinvention can look like a midlife crisis. Read Cathy Donovan’s take on this time in life. God, it really is all about me now. Not in the self-serving, hey guess what I am doing way, but rather, in a very different …
