A Case of the Human Condition: Early Late Youth Gives Way to Middle Middle Age
When I was twenty, I didn't want to be thirty. When I was forty, I considered fifty a disaster. And now that I'm sixty-seven I don't want to even think about sixty-seven, let alone sixty-eight. The...
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Anne Lamott on Getting Older — Drop That Rock
It's time to drop that rock we've been carrying around, says Anne Lamott. It’s time to surrender to the fact that we can't do it all. We're getting older and it's time to have ourselves some peace....
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My Mother’s Last Words to Me Before She Died
My mother’s last words to me were nothing much. No parting words of love. No heartfelt messages to the grandchildren. Read more. The post My Mother’s Last Words to Me Before She Died appeared first on...
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My Upper Lip and Other Sorrows
I feel bad about my lip. My upper lip. Nora Ephron felt bad about her neck, a body part she made famous back in 2006 with her book I Feel Bad About My Neck. Nora also felt bad about her frizzy grey...
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How to Be a Glamorous Gal at Age 98
My aunt was tall, red-headed, blue-eyed, self-sufficient and glamorous at a time and place when most women in her hometown wanted nothing more than to get married, have babies and put up green beans...
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The Mother-of-the-Groom Diaries — Am I Too Old for Splashy Earrings?
The long dress I was planning to wear to my son’s wedding needed earrings. Not a necklace. Not a bracelet. Not a glitzy ring. My gown needed earrings. Big, attention-grabbing, dangle earrings. Read...
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On the Shores of Lake Michigan — Eagle Top, a Wild Place Tamed
Somebody owns Eagle Top. They bought it ten years ago and built a cottage on it. I didn’t think it was possible to buy, sell or own Eagle Top. Eagle Top was a wild place. I thought it belonged to...
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It’s August, But It’s Not Too Soon to Wonder — Can Christmas Be Christmas...
Christmas has gotten to be a scheduling nightmare. Peter lives in Minnesota. Christina lives in Southern California. Jon and I live in Northern California. That puts 400 miles between us and our...
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Actor Robert Morse – Sweaty at 36, Sublime at 83
The last time I saw Robert Morse there were beads of sweat on his forehead. It was 1967 and he was working the crowd on the set of a local TV comedy show. Robert Morse was on. He was going for laughs...
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