Roxanne Jones blogs at Boomer Haiku, a mostly light-hearted, often irreverent look at life as a baby boomer, 17 syllables at a time. We’ve all seen ‘em: those “listicles” that impart wisdom (“All I Need to Know About Life…”) gleaned from dogs, cats, cows, the Easter bunny, toddlers and the like. Life lessons, it seems, …
Valerie Albarda writes regularly at Midlife-A-Go-Go. This post was originally featured there. Kenji Streeter Albarda was the doggie love of my life. Although he wasn’t the first huggable, furry creature to own me (shout out to Jippy, the Streeter family pooch and my first foray into dog ownership), Kenji was the 45-pound lab mix who …
June always reminds us of our fathers, and Carol Graham welcomes the opportunity to tell her dad’s tale and her lessons from Father. Read more from Carol on her blog. In a small German village on New Year’s Eve, 1903, my father, William Frederick, was born. He was the oldest of thirteen children. Life was challenging and …
They say hindsight is 20/20. I am gaining perspective on the decade I exited a few months hence. In some ways it was my least favorite. In some, one of my more dear. If you can have favorites for that kind of thing. So what did I learn ten years after turning fifty? 1) How to …
On my long journey to the altar, I seem to have picked up some accidental wisdom along the way. Call it unintended self-illumination or inadvertent self-enlightenment, this path to marriage has taught me a lot about life. Now, I realize that marriage isn’t the end-all, be-all pinnacle of success, but for me it’s a bit …
