Give yourself the best Mother’s Day gift of all! Honestly, you can have a good relationship with your mother, really, I’m not pulling your leg. No matter how awful she is. If she’s living or not, nobody can push your buttons like good ol’ Mom. Funny thing is, we may repeat…
One of the few “gifts” that comes from dying as the result of a terminal illness, rather than a sudden and unexpected death, is the perspective of clarity that it brings to your everyday choices. Knowing that your time on this earth is limited, I imagine that everyone would be far…
Opinion: A Small Victory For Civil Discourse, Mary Keyes Rogers Politics and friends. I talk a lot about self-awareness in midlife. At least my efforts to become more aware of my foibles. In my opinion column this week for the Northern Express, a local weekly news magazine, I share a…
Making Midlife Easier: Five Powerful Phrases To Lean On Midlife can be tough. So, let’s make it easier. I consistently hear from my Experience 50 Podcast listeners that they never expected this stage of life to be so exciting or so challenging. Some don’t even recognize their feelings, can’t even…
It was great fun to be a guest, along with Eileen Williams of Work Over 50, on WESU’s Women Over Forty, hosted by Cyma Shapiro. We shared our opinions and insights on why there is so much buzz about reinventing ourselves after 50, the challenges of the work world and…
Admittedly, I am a Ted Talk junkie. If I could recommend only one Ted Talk to midlifers seeking happiness throughout their lives, this would be it. Enjoy, listen, learn, and lean in.
In midlife, the month of June is a significant period in making decisions about marriage and divorce. Why? Because it is the month of high school graduations. Many husbands and wives have waited until their youngest child graduates from high school to file for divorce. What one spouse finds to…
No, my dear, you cannot. But maybe they have some other social media apps in heaven, I don’t know, Cloud 9? But, what you can and should do is name somebody to manage your account once you have, uh, left this world. Facebook allows you to name a Legacy Contact,…
Dear Mom Letter Sometimes, you can’t tell your mom what is in your heart. Maybe she has slipped into dementia or has passed away. For many of us, we just don’t have the kind of relationship with our mom that supports intimate heartfelt conversations. But that doesn’t mean we don’t…
March 13, 2016… Full disclosure: I know the author, Shenandoah Chefalo. We live in the same city in Northern Michigan, I know her husband, we have many mutual friends, and I like her. I like her a lot, even though when we first really talked to each other she warned…
He’s a hugger. She’s a hugger. He’s not a hugger. I’m a hugger. Some of us are huggers, some are not. Personal space issues, germaphobes or simply shy creatures may hold some back from wrapping themselves around another. Among those who do hug, we have: the hearty huggers, the one-armed chin huggers, the…
Maybe this is just what it’s like being over 50? It seems that not a week goes by without sad news of a death or seriously grave health issue in my extended circle of family and friends. I shared this with a friend, listing all of stories of sadness that…