My Midlife Project

Remodeling a Middle-Aged Mom

Everything Has a Purpose

“Everything has a purpose — even machines. Clocks tell the time. Trains takes you places. They do what they’re meant to do… I’d imagine the whole world was one big machine. Machines never come with any extra parts, you know. They always come with the exact amount they need. So I figured if the entire world was […]

Making Time for the Things I Love

Question #1: Name an activity you have always loved. My answer: Writing. Question #2: Name something other people say you do well. My answer: Writing. Question #3: Name an activity you never seem to fit into your schedule. My answer: Writing. Do you see a trend? I do. During the past three weeks since my last […]

Making Room For Quiet

I’ll write more about this topic very soon, but today I’m taking the lazy way out. Some days I just need to breathe… Solitude matters, and for some people it is the air that they breathe. — Susan Cain Are you an introvert or an extrovert? Have you ever pretended you were whichever “vert” you aren’t? […]

31 Random Facts About Me

  I thought it would be fun to throw together a list of trivial little tidbits about me. It was harder than I thought, in this age of “identity theft”. I ended up deleting several of the items because they contained the answers to “My Secret Questions” on various web sites. Oops. No point in […]

Don’t Stretch… Be Dynamic!

I hate to stretch. Let me repeat that opening sentence. I.Hate.To.Stretch. Not only do I hate it, I avoid it. Throughout 33 years of running, I avoided it. Successfully, I might add. I’ve been injury-free for three decades. When experts started debating the safety and effectiveness of static stretching — especially pre-workout stretching — I […]