by Robin Gorman Newman
I need to feel like life holds possibility.
Since becoming a midlife mother, there are days when things feel so predictable, almost stagnant, that I find myself questioning my choice to parent. Being a stay at home mom who works from home in the suburbs was my choice, but it doesn’t come naturally to me. I know there’s a big world out there that doesn’t involve scheduling play dates, bath time, homework, etc., and I crave it. […]
by Valerie Gillies
“CENTERING: that act which precedes all others on the potter’s wheel. The bringing of the clay into a spinning, unwobbling pivot, which will then be free to take innumerable shapes as potter and clay press against each other. The firm, tender, sensitive pressure which yields as much as it asserts. It is like a handclasp between two living hands, receiving the greeting at the very moment that they give it…” – from “Centering – In Pottery, Poetry, and the Person” by M.C. Richard. […]
by Deatra Haimé Anderson
I got my first brand new car in my twenties. It was a silver Volkswagen Jetta with a dark grey interior and automatic sunroof. I was in love, freed, finally, from a completely unreliable and unwieldy Pontiac Grand Am that guzzled gas and was impossible to parallel park. […]
by Cyma Shapiro
I am both a thinker and a seeker. I think about everything and constantly seek answers. I recently wrote a blog post about “What If’s” – those nagging questions we all have about earlier adulthood. However, since writing the post, I find that most of my questions have not been answered. The most fundamental question also remains: As a (new) midlife mother – were I to live my life over again, would I do it the same? […]