I wasn’t always the Midlife Boulevard travel editor. Before I morphed into a travel blogger, I was a lawyer. I graduated from law school in another century, 20 years before Y2K. In case you’re a lawyer and went to law school because you can’t do math, that was 1980. During or about 2005 (because lawyers …
Mourning the Loss of Parenting, and the Grief of the Empty Nest The first year empty nest hit, I think I counted each and every day “since he left for college.” “He’s been gone two months and three days.” Then it was, “Five months and 17 days.” Then maybe, at around the nine month mark, …
Recently, while talking about our kids graduating high school and venturing off to figure out where they fit into the world, we also found ourselves daydreaming about helping them shop department store and thrift goodies for their first apartments. I am as frugal as they come. For the longest time, I did not have décor …
Still Adding to Your Family? Raising a Grandchild? Whether you are still having children, raising a grandchild, or adding to your family through adoption, you know that finances change as the family gets larger. There are several elements to look at where you can save some money, allowing you to better budget for your growing …
How many of you are already started planning your “New Year’s resolutions” even though it is only November? I think some of us have a year-long list that just keeps going and going and at the end of the year, we put a title at the top proclaiming that we WILL do these things in …