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Archive for January, 2009

Relax Into Midlife

Posted in Health, Life, Midwest, Transitions, midlife, tagged , , , , , on January 25, 2009 | 1 Comment »

I am amazed at how ingrained I am by the experiences of my first 40+ years in the northern Midwest. The day it snowed here, I was caught instantly in a vortex of mixed emotions. I appreciated the beauty of fresh fallen snow but as soon as I started walking uphill on the un-shoveled sidewalk [...]

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Watching “Revolutionary Road”

Posted in Life, Transitions, midlife, tagged , , , on January 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

We watched the movie “Revolutionary Road” last night. There was a memorable line where the Weavers (the main couple played by Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet) describe their painful discontentment with their lives as the “hopeless emptiness of the suburbs.” They’d bought into the storyline that successful and happy families own a home in [...]

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Who Let the Resolution Makers In?

Posted in Exercise, Health, Resolution, tagged , , on January 8, 2009 | 5 Comments »

I should have known the minute the ball dropped in Times Square. Ignorantly, I welcomed in the New Year kissing my husband and toasting with friends as if nothing was about to change. I’d given up New Year’s resolutions as a serious matter years ago. I’d forgotten how many people still carry this tradition like [...]

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Rewind and Fast Forward

Posted in Midwest, Travel, midlife, tagged , , , , on January 4, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Over Christmas we made a 13-hour drive north to be with family. It was the first time I’ve been back to my stomping grounds since moving south.  And even though I grew up there and have visited the place a hundred times I saw it with new eyes, recognizing that trips will now be planned [...]

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