A journalist and author's musings on love, marriage, divorce and life
Posted in Divorce, Expectations, Marriage, Relationships, Stereotypes, Women on Apr 14th, 2014
There are lots of different reasons why couples call it quits but no matter how or why, all divorced people have one thing in common — being asked, “So, why did you get divorced?” It isn’t necessarily a bad question: sometimes the answer helps people gauge their own relationships. Often, the answer illuminates the divorced […]
Posted in Dating, Expectations, Men, Relationships, Sex, Singles, Stereotypes, Women on Feb 24th, 2014
Should women make men wait to have sex? There’s been a flurry of discussion lately about that lately, first with the release of a video “The Economics of Sex” by the Austin Institute, a new academic initiative that conducts research on family, marriage and relationships (you can watch it below). I am quite leary about […]
Posted in Dating, Expectations, Love, Marriage, Relationships, Singles, Stereotypes, Women on Jan 28th, 2014
The stores are awash in red and pink. It can only mean Valentine’s Day is upon us. There was a time when I looked forward to Valentine’s Day. True, it was about 50-some years ago, back when I was in elementary school in New York City, but it was a pretty darn exciting day plus […]
Posted in Aging, Divorce, Friends, Love, Marriage, Men, Midlife, Relationships, Women on Jan 21st, 2014
Buzz Aldrin has been promoting his new book, Mission to Mars: My Vision for Space Exploration, which details his plan to have space travel and a permanent presence on the Red Planet by the 2030s. As controversial as that may be for some, he made just as many headlines when the former astronaut started dating […]
Posted in Aging, Dating, Expectations, Love, Marriage, Men, Midlife, Relationships, Sex, Singles, Stereotypes, Women on Jan 15th, 2014
Here’s what’s happened in the past year — two girlfriends have gotten engaged, and one has her condo on the market and is looking with her boyfriend to buy a new place and move in together. They are all 50-something, empty-nesters and divorced. Who says middle-aged women can’t find love again? I call BS. And […]
Posted in Family, Friends, Infidelity, Relationships, Sex, Women on Jan 7th, 2014
You have a friend who is having an affair or is thinking about having one. What do you say? If you’re a woman, you just might encourage her. At least that’s the result of a recent study I stumbled upon. OK, granted — it’s a Ph.D dissertation and not published in a peer-reviewed journal. And, its […]
Posted in Aging, Children, Dating, Divorce, Expectations, Family, Marriage, Midlife, Mothers, Parenting, Relationships, Sex, Stereotypes, Women on Dec 10th, 2013
Despite societal myths about older women no longer mattering sexually, I have never met a midlife mom post-divorce who didn’t want to be appreciated and embraced as a sexual being. That’s not to say that there weren’t some women who were perfectly content to surrender their sexual identity to focus on raising their children or […]
Posted in Dating, Expectations, Marriage, Men, Relationships, Women on Oct 8th, 2013
The Good Men Project recently pondered, what’s a man without money? That’s a good question. I’ve never been one to focus on money — my own or someone else’s — or see it as a path to happiness. Now that I’m at midlife, however, and helping to get two kids through college, hoping to retire […]
Posted in Aging, Children, Divorce, Expectations, Family, Marriage, Men, Relationships, Women on Oct 1st, 2013
Recently, National Geographic had a startling cover — a picture of a baby and a headline declaring, “This Baby Will Live To Be 120.” Thanks in part to technological advances as well as ever-increasing life expectancy, others say we could live to be 1,000 years old although many more believe an average life span of […]
Posted in Children, Divorce, Expectations, Infidelity, Marriage, Midlife, Mothers, Parenting, Relationships, Sex, Women on Sep 3rd, 2013
I had the pleasure of interviewing local chef and author Toni Piccinini about her book, The Goodbye Year: Wisdom and Culinary Therapy to Survive Your Child’s Senior Year of High School and Reclaim the You of You). OK, it’s a long title, but as we sat at Book Passage, chatting about the take-away messages of […]
