Stories About Women
This is a collection founded by one of our early ambassadors, Susan, focused on the real and sometimes gritty life of women in the sandwich generation…which Susan describes as “Middle Life Maddness.”
Tonight I returned my mom to her assisted living facility after being out of town with us the past week of Christmas. For the 3 hour drive down, she insisted that she needed to stop ...
As a writer I am expected to always have a witty story, a unique take on things, a novel and wise antidote to life. Well, guess what. I don’t. More days go by than not ...
It’s a Saturday night and I am staring into the bathroom mirror. Not in a pre-going-out-to-dinner last minute kinda way but in that way of trying to figure what the hell was wrong with this ...
Most days a bit of humor is necessary just to get over the hump and onto the next one. Fortunately for me, I never have to look very far outside my own little world to ...
A very young and pregnant virgin. A tiny, helpless baby born to save the world. Camels, sheep and a stinky stable. An unbelievably miraculous story that grows harder to comprehend when I try to justify ...
Even in the midst of chaos, always try to enjoy or at least appreciate the madness of the journey for it will be over before you know it. All the craziness that you can’t wait ...
Upon writing this official “screw off to old age” and my perpetual observations of my mother who apparently whole-heartedly embraces this stage, I realize that a lot of people ultimately judge me and take away ...
“Hold him a little longer, Rock him a little more, Tell him another story, you’ve only told him four; Let him sleep on your shoulder, rejoice in his happy smile. He is only a little ...
In the middle of trying to compose this inaugural post that will launch Middle Life Madness, my mind is everywhere but in the middle of writing. After 22 years of waiting for the light at ...
“Nancy, no one saw you back into that damned car,” my father is echoing in the background, clearly agitated over my tattletale mother’s insistence in involving his daughter in this ongoing debate. “Whaaaat?” I hear ...
