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I Don't Have To Decide My Future Now Do I?

2/13/10 5:00pm by sassymonkey
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I am not much of a planner. Well, that's not really accurate. I'm not much of a life planner. There are two questions that I've always kind of loathed. The first is, "What do you want to be when you grow up?" So what if I haven't been (seriously) asked that in awhile? A close second is a question I've been asked in numerous job interviews, "Where do you see yourself in five (or even ten) years?" The truth is, I don't know and if you don't mind I'd prefer not to think about it too much.  Read more >

My Real-life Conversation With the Past

2/11/10 5:32pm by Her Bad Mother
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If someone had asked me, ten years ago, where I thought I might be ten years hence, I'd have responded with a shrug and said I really, really don't know. And I really didn't. I had some ambitions and aspirations, but these were still pretty vague beyond the usual desires to be happy, be fulfilled, etc. I was working on my PhD, but wasn't sure that I wanted to pursue an academic life; my husband and I had spoken about having children, but weren't sure when we'd be ready.  Read more >

Standing on the Brink of a New Decade

1/29/10 11:00am by Shannon LC Cate
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I will turn 40 in about two weeks.  In my case, this means I've been sort of crazy for the past year.  Right after I turned 39, I suddenly decided that I had exactly one year left in which to grow up and accomplish all the things I thought I ought to have accomplished by 40.The trouble (or the saving grace) is that I've never really been one to make lists of goals as far as what and where to be and when.  So I didn't really know what it was the clock was clicking down to.  Read more >

Yes, Virginia, a Friendship is Starting!

1/19/10 8:20am by Mata H
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BlogHer Community Manager, Denise Tanton, announced an experiment. She would match up volunteer Contributing Editors who were about a decade apart and give us a week or so to get to know each other, and to report back on what the inter-generational journey had been like. Viginia DeBolt and I volunteered and were paired. Virginia writes about Web & Technology, and I write about Religion & Spirituality.  Read more >

Befriending a Younger Woman

1/16/10 7:00am by Virginia DeBolt
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I own a piece of art by New Mexico artist Helen Gwinn. It's called co-hearts. It's an artistic rendering of the iconic relationship that develops between women, that relationship we generally label friendship.  Read more >

Aging and Learning, but Unable to Defy Gravity

1/8/10 7:19pm by Mata H
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I am about to turn sixty on January 20th. I look in the mirror and just do not understand. To you out there, comfortably ensconced in your thirties, I have one thing to say. Your Day Will Come. The day will come, when, like me, you suddenly get that you have more years behind you than in front of you. Phrases such as "Age is irrelevant," or "You are only as old as you feel," are now cause for irony-laced snickers. Life is still sweet, and mostly just dandy. It's just different now. You'll see.  Read more >