Despite the rude awakenings, the unsettling physical and emotional chaos of midlife and all of its frightful, presumed ramifications, an amazing number of women find this stage to be the most personally fulfilling and satisfying of their lives so far. A recent Gallup survey of women aged fifty to sixty-five revealed that fifty-one percent of…

  By Rev. Kelly Thibeault After a summer of waiting, the time has finally come. It is finished. After almost 24 years of childrearing, our nest is now empty. Our son, our youngest child, headed off to college in Nebraska a few weeks ago. I’ve done a lot of thinking this summer, reminiscing over the…

By Edward Helmore In the years since Cathi Hanauer’s bestselling anthology of life stories, the women she spoke to have new goals In 2002, Cathi Hanauer published The Bitch in the House, a bestselling compilation of 26 life stories by women who felt they were carrying a disproportionate load in the home and in their…

BY Jody Rogoff Moses , Australia  Are we all just too damn busy to wallow in our unclaimed aspirations?  Eugh. Have you ever been able to identify a woman in midlife crisis? Have you seen her abandon her kids, thermomix and marital boredom and run from her suburban door to buy a new car or…

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