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 …
About four years ago, Sharon Greenthal and Anne Parris asked me to write this weekly column for Midlife Boulevard, and it has been a joy to participate in this community and build an audience of friends. When I started my blog in 2010, I had no idea how important it would become as a key …
I see her so clearly in my mind. An eleven-year-old girl, sitting outside. Sometimes in the hot, Texas sun on a playground. Sometimes on the swing set in the back yard. Most often on the screened-in-porch, safe from predators buzzing about. And always … always, with a pencil and paper in hand. She would write …
You can find Kathy over at her website, kathybrunner.com. This post was initially published there. I’m going to start off with something personal. Over the last few weeks, I have found myself feeling less than great. I’d wake up every morning with ailments varying from headaches to nosebleeds. I tried whatever over-the-counter and natural remedies I could think …
This post first appeared on Jennifer’s blog, mamawolfe. You can find her there writing regularly about the life lessons learned as an emotionally charged, audaciously outspoken, tenaciously inquisitive and nostalgic teacher mom. “No” is a complete sentence. ― Anne Lamott That word used to drive me crazy when my kids were little. Remember those days when every …
