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Monday Jul 13 2009

By Jim Selman | Bio

I spent the weekend in California, hanging out with my children and visiting old friends. I was in both Los Angeles and San Francisco and picked up on the current mood from both ends of the State—at least based on my small sample of conversations. The consensus is that California is a great place to live, but a fiscal and political mess.[Read More]

Written by eldering at Wisdom in Action

Tagged with: california california_commission_on_aging constitutional_convention crisis diversity gm politics

Emptying the Nest

Wednesday Jan 24 2007

By Marilyn Kentz
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Every time one of my kids left home, it broke my heart. But when the baby goes—the last one—it’s just so-o-o-o empty. In my case, the last to go was the vasectomy-reversal baby. That’s right. I asked my husband to get a vasectomy, then I changed my mind. I was 38, and my first midlife crisis was beginning. At that same time, my boys were just about to become nasty teenagers. So, when I was 38, I successfully pushed my little daughter into this busy world and bought myself 18 more years of motherhood.[Read More]

Written by eldering at Fearless Aging
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Tagged with: crisis midlife motherhood