Gretchen is a wine lover with sharp wit who believes wholeheartedly in life, laughter, and the pursuit of a perfect Chardonnay. She can be found writing over at Wine Down Lounge. This post was originally featured there. They say, “You can’t go home again.” ‘They’ in this case, being Thomas Wolfe (I had to Google that). …
As the last of the firsts and the first of the lasts approach, Lynn Cobb remembers it all – through her dining room table. Read more from Lynn on her blog, Midlife Random Ramblings . Our dining table is a disaster. We bought it twenty years ago, when our family expanded from four to six. It has …
No, this isn’t going to be about punctuation. Nor does it have anything to do with history. It’s about that other kind of period. The one that I was so excited about before it started. The one I couldn’t wait to get. I was practically hopping up and down, waiting for this undeniable sign of womanhood. I …
The childhood of the sixties and seventies was vastly different than childhood is now. Marcia Kester Doyle waxes nostalgic…mostly. Read more from Marcia on her blog, Menopausal Mother. We’re known as the “Baby Boomer” generation, but I prefer to think of people my age as the “Live and Learn” generation. We threw caution to …
I have done a couple of these posts in the past and I always enjoy doing it, but today, it feels more difficult to look back and give myself advice or even to sit in judgment of that younger self – the girl or woman of my past. She did okay with what she had …
