To be 16 again…

I’ve found the fountain of youth.
Seriously.
Wanna feel like an adolescent again?
Have your husband of 30 years leave you.
No kidding.
It puts you right back to being a high school junior and your boyfriend broke up with you the week before prom.
The angst, the agony, the blow to your self esteem.
I know what I’m talking about; I [...]

Belongs in a fortune cookie…

(Thank you , Allie) I know – easier said than done. I keep telling myself that worrying about what will happen won’t change it. I’m trying very hard to differentiate between planning for what might happen and worrying about it.
Sigh.

Divorce in the Age of Obama

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Barack Obama will be sworn in today. I will be watching in the gym with 300 middle-schoolers.
I’ve been thinking a little about what this means to me, a midlife divorcee.
In many ways, I see the change in America mirroring my change. Or is it my change in mind mirroring America’s? I [...]