Tag Archives: midlife

Obama on Tonight

Posted on 20. Mar, 2009 by Karen.

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Yesterday morning I woke up thinking I’ve got to watch the President on Jay Leno.  I went to bed thinking there’s something I forgot to do today.  Well you’ve got it right.  I missed the whole interview.  Nothing like a midlife moment.
If you missed this history-making segment of the Tonight Show too, here’s the [...]

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Good-Bye to a Munchkin

Posted on 28. Feb, 2009 by Karen.

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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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The Evolution of Midlife’s a Trip

Posted on 14. Jan, 2009 by Karen.

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I’ve been blogging here at Midlife’s a Trip for over a year and a half.  When I started I didn’t know what I was doing.  The good news is that I know a little more than I did then.  Really — at midlife I find that there’s so much of technology that takes me just [...]

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It’s Never Too Late to Think and Grow Rich

Posted on 18. Nov, 2008 by Karen.

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  Last night I came across an iTunes gift card in my purse.  I won it in a raffle at a conference I attended recently.  I’ve been feeling antsy about the economy lately — haven’t we all — and decided that I shouldn’t just let the gift card sit there.  Something led me to the audiobooks [...]

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Get Smiling With the Puppy Cam

Posted on 15. Nov, 2008 by Karen.

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The latest craze on the Internet is the “puppy cam”. This is a live video of 6 Shibu Inu puppies who were 5 weeks old this week. Their owners just wanted to find them good homes by showing the puppies in day to day action on a live video cam. What resulted [...]

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What A Midlife Crisis Feels Like

Posted on 11. Nov, 2008 by Karen.

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In the next hour I will be at my aunt’s funeral.  Aunt Hazel died last Friday at 79.  And to be honest, I can’t imagine the world without her.  My earliest memories of her are of a loving woman who always said what she meant and meant what she said.  “No nonsense” was her mantra.  [...]

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Lipstick Was My Favorite Halloween Costume

Posted on 31. Oct, 2008 by Karen.

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I know it sounds weird but lipstick was my favorite Halloween costume.  I didn’t care what I dressed up as that day as long as lipstick was involved.  Remember, I grew up during the 50’s when the standard, at least what I saw on my friends’ mothers and women in the movies was really, really, really RED lipstick.  And [...]

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Being Big Sister

Posted on 30. Oct, 2008 by Karen.

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This week I had to pull rank on my sister.  She’s the one I refer to as “Meno Mom”, the mother of the now infamous Peanut, my 4 year old niece.  Meno Mom has become a wonderful caregiver in midlife.  She’s a single mom raising the Peanut and is infinitely patient and loving with my mother [...]

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Manifesting Peanut — A Midlife Adoption Tale

Posted on 17. Oct, 2008 by Karen.

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Once upon a time, there was a woman who wanted to be a mother more than anything.  But she never found the right man and had no luck with the scientific alternatives.  Finally, she decided to adopt despite the overwhelming odds of being single, a minority, having limited resources and family who tried to talk her out of taking this [...]

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The Path to Peace in Midlife

Posted on 15. Oct, 2008 by Karen.

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As you can see from yesterday’s posts, I’ve been pretty stressed out about the tone and tenor of the presidential campaign lately. But today is a new day and I got to thinking it should be more about peace. For me peacefulness comes with meditation.
I learned about meditation early in life. Although [...]

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