Tag Archives : midlife

Lifestyle

For Yom Kippur, Another Reinvention

By Shelley Singer
The baby rabbi, a young man of 26 — fresh from seminary, the most junior of the four in our vast congregation — delivered the sermon on Rosh Hashanah morning. At first, he spoke of creation and destruction, judgment and mercy as the messages of the festival. This day, he said, we are created anew through an act of God’s…
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Lifestyle

Back to school? Now, when I was your age..

By Billie Brown
I’m so old that there was no kindergarten when I was 5 years old. I started first grade in Kansas, and when I met my teacher I told her, “I will endeavor to be a good pupil.” She looked at me like I was a hurricane, then burst out laughing and hugged me. We must have learned lots of things,…
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Lifestyle

Labor Days and September Beginnings

By Julia L. Kay
Labor Day weekend has always been a time of transitions for me, starting with the earliest and biggest transition I’ve ever gone through: September 2, 1962, when my mother labored on Labor Day and brought me into the world. Officially marking the passage of my years has thus also always coincided with one of the biggest seasonal transitions visually, when…
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Lifestyle

Sizing Up

By Shelley Singer
“Where can we see them now? That simple dancing of well-covered matrons… remembering but not affecting youth, not jealous but proud of the young maidens by their side ….” George Eliot, Adam Bede, 1859 I let my stomach out, on the beach in Taormina, in a victory of acceptance over self-loathing that I hoped would begin a process of coming…
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Books

Final Day, Interview with Ginnah Howard

By Women's Voices For Change
Las t month, we saluted Ginnah Howard when her novel Night Navigation was featured in the New York Times Book Review. Now, we have the opportunity to salute Ms. Howard again — and to thank her  for responding in such length to questions about her novel and herself. We’ve been sharing that conversation over four days. In today’s final installment,…
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Books

The Full Dream: Interview with Ginnah Howard, Part Three

By Laura Baudo Sillerman
Las t month, we saluted Ginnah Howard when her novel Night Navigation was featured in the New York Times Book Review. Now we have the opportunity to salute Ms. Howard again — and to thank her for responding in such length to questions about her novel and herself. We’ve been sharing that conversation over four days. In today’s installment, Ginnah…
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Lifestyle

The Red Wheelbarrow: A Meditation

By Billie Brown
so much depends
 upon a red wheel
barrow glazed with rain
water beside the white
chickens. So wrote the young aspiring poet William Carlos Williams in 1923. At his young age, how did he know? At his age, I was aspiring to be the world’s greatest poet or film star – or a cheerleader. Later, as a wife and mother I strove for…
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Family & Friends · Lifestyle

When Mother’s Day Brings Only Questions

By Diane Vacca
I didn’t like my mother. I don’t remember ever feeling close to her, and I was always convinced that she had no idea who I really was, what I believed, what I wanted or why. I remember coming home with torn pants and knees bloodied from climbing trees or rolling down grassy slopes, confounding her belief that little girls should…
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General Medical

Dr. Melanie Katzman: On Eating Disorders and Midlife

By Dr. Melanie Katzman
As a specialist in women’s mental health, I am often asked, “does one ever recover from an eating disorder?” To this the answer is a resounding yes, provided one learns  to set realistic expectations,  discovers alternative ways to nourish themselves physically and emotionally and devel ops alternative ways of coping with stress . Easier said than done but, it is…
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News

More Health News: Walk Off That Stress; Protection Orders Can Keep Women Safe

By Womens Voices for Change
More Reason to Walk Off That Stress: Temple University researchers who tracked nearly 400 Philadelphia women for eight years came forward this week with heartening if less-than-surprising news: menopausal women who walk every day have an easier time of…nearly everything. According to the new research, physical activity can help throughout the menopausal transition and afterwards… The women were assessed on…
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