The Midlife Baby Whisperer
Posted on 09. Mar, 2009 by Karen.
Meet Baby D – my new little cousin. He was born very early Saturday morning and I was there! What an amazing experience to be present to welcome a new life into the world.
While Baby D was warming up under the heat lamp, I was talking to him – one of the very first [...]
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You’re Never Too Old for Social Networking
Posted on 07. Mar, 2009 by Karen.
I remember the first time someone mentioned Facebook to me. My first thought — that’s for kids. And when I heard about Twitter, I thought — OMG, something else for kids. But what I’ve come to learn over the past several months is that sites like Facebook and Twitter, where I’m now [...]
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The Peanut’s First Story
Posted on 05. Mar, 2009 by Karen.
In honor of the 5th birthday of my niece, the Peanut, I am publishing her first literary work here on Midlife’s A Trip:
The Story
Once there was a princess.
The giant stepped on the princess.
The king saved the princess and she went to [...]
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The Best of Peanut
Posted on 04. Mar, 2009 by Karen.
Tomorrow is my niece’s 5th birthday. Here in the blogosphere she’s know as the “Peanut“. From time to time I write about her and amazingly the life lessons I learn from this little person. So in honor of the big “5″, here’s a post from the best of Peanut . I love you sweetie!
Last spring [...]
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Good-Bye to a Munchkin
Posted on 28. Feb, 2009 by Karen.
Thanks to my friend Allison Allison over at Women Bloom for her Facebook post on the sad news that Clarence Swenson, one of the last living Munchkins has died. The Wizard of Oz was one of my favorite movies as a child of the 50’s. I’ve seen it so many times that I know the [...]
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I’ve Taken a Bite of the Apple
Posted on 27. Feb, 2009 by Karen.
Well last week I took a big bite of the apple by becoming the owner of a new MacBook computer. Macs aren’t just for college kids, you know.
What I’ve learned in these last few days is that there’s so much I can do on a Mac without adding the extra do-dads needed to achieve the [...]
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Before You Have That Glass of Wine
Posted on 25. Feb, 2009 by Karen.
In these days when bad news about the economy comes every 15 minutes, by the end of the day you’re probably stressed like the rest of us and ready for that glass of wine or favorite martini. Well the bad news just got worse because a recent study of over 1 million women showed that [...]
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Musings of a Daddy’s Girl
Posted on 17. Feb, 2009 by Karen.
Yesterday would have been my dad’s 89th birthday and I’ve been thinking about him a lot over the last week. Dad died 6 years ago. I guess I thought that there’s a beginning and end to the grieving process but there really isn’t.
Missing my dad seem so fresh sometimes, especially when I look at [...]
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A Midlife Valentine
Posted on 14. Feb, 2009 by Karen.
I was thinking this morning that commercialism has conditioned us to think that if we don’t have candy, flowers and someone to cuddle up with on Valentine’s Day there’s something’s wrong. Well it’s time to throw that thought out the window because you have a lot more than chocolate-covered cherries to be happy about today.
You [...]
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Trader Joe’s Comes to the Little Screen
Posted on 12. Feb, 2009 by Karen.
I’m a self-confessed Trader Joe’s fan. Who’s Trader Joe? Well it’s not a who but a what — the laid back grocery store whose employees wear Hawaiian-print shirts, a smile and a great attitude. But as this contraband video of my favorite store points out — no cameras allowed. So I’m excited to bring Trader [...]
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Life Lessons From An Old Dog
Posted on 11. Feb, 2009 by Karen.
Meet Stump, a 10-year old dog which is about 70 canine years. But not just any old dog because this exceptionally persuasive Sussex spaniel got the judges at the prestigious Westminster Kennel Club Show to pick him as the winner over all the young pups prancing around the ring. And he’s the first in [...]
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The Midlife Insomniac
Posted on 02. Feb, 2009 by Karen.
One of the longstanding problems on my midlife trip has been how to get a good night’s sleep. When I was a late 40-something moving from perimenopause into the big “M”, night sweats wrecked my sleep pattern. I used to wake up as drenched as if I had just run a marathon. By the time [...]
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Peanut on Inauguration Day
Posted on 21. Jan, 2009 by Karen.
Yesterday we all gathered at my sister’s place to watch the inauguration of President Obama. From 10am until 6, we sat around the dining table and watched the amazing events of the day. My 4-year old niece, the “Peanut” spent the whole day with her own personal aura of excitement. First, she got to stay [...]
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