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That First Blush of Love - Uh Oh!

5/26/11 8:24am by Kelly Jackson
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I just want to confirm that it doesn’t matter how old you are, that first blush of love is one powerful thing.  It’s upsetting, physically debilitating, thrilling, scary, unnerving and filled with opportunity. And, that’s before he calls a second time.  Read more >

All The World's a Stage

3/9/11 12:43pm by Kelly Jackson
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Just think about it.  The first thing we do in the morning is decide who we’re going to be that particular day...let’s start with wardrobe.  Some of us shouldn’t be trusted picking our daily costumes, but that’s another blog about fashion police.  Today, I am a sophisticated woman dressed from head to toe in Santa Fe peasant chic.  My boss doesn’t like it when I show up to work that way, but I don’t care, because I am ANACTRESS!  I get to be whoever the hell I want to be.  Read more >

Saving Daylight

11/3/10 12:00pm by Kelly Jackson
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It’s time again for humans to try to change the natural cycle of days and nights.  What a fun game it is.  Of course, it totally fucks with our internal waking and sleeping cycles, but what the hell, let’s mandate changing the clocks.  God laughs.  She laughs as we try to figure out whether to ‘fall back’ or ‘spring forward.’  She guffaws when we say, “Okay, now if it’s 7 am, it’s really 6 am, or if it’s 6 am, it’s really 7 am??”   Read more >

Language Skills - Let's Make Up Words We Can't Remember!

7/14/10 9:25am by Kelly Jackson
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If you’ve ever read, “Me Talk Pretty One Day,” firstly, you’re a David Sedaris fan and secondly, you guffaw at the thought of what we might think we’re saying to someone versus what they are hearing.  Sometimes those are chasms far, wide and deep  Read more >

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the twisted midlifers who are still crazy after all these years!

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Full Name
The Midlife Gals
Member Since
September 2007
About Me: 

We're twisted middle-aged sisters from Texas who are still crazy after all these years. Please join us for our Seinfeldian daily observations from the mundane to the insane!

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THE MIDLIFE GALS ®
Hysterical History

•    July, 2007 - We didn’t know what a blog was.

•    August, 2007 - Posted our first essay on The Midlife Gals ™ blog
( http://www.themidlifegals.com ).

•    October, 2007 - Approached by MORE Magazine about featuring us in an article.

•    January, 2008 - MORE Magazine article on the stands with our feature as one of four blogs mentioned, Women of the Blogosphere, page 30 (Jan/Feb issue).

•    March, 2008 - Entered video contest for The Greenlight Awards through an online video company, On Networks which was represented at the South by Southwest Film Festival.

•    March, 2008 - Selected as one of four finalists for The Greenlight Award in the category of best original digital series concept for the videos we produce of ourselves on The Midlife Gals ™ blog.

•    April, 2008 - Approached by a very large online health network, The Health Central Network, to produce humorous videos and blogs for their website.  ( http://www.healthcentral.com/stop-smoking/c/55817/profile )

•    April 2008 - Our video, ‘The Jazzy Scooter Barrel Race’ won runner-up award and was featured on the Emmy award-winning program, Docubloggers.

•    April, 2008 - Wrote, produced and acted in a fifteen-minute situation comedy pilot based on The Midlife Gals ® for network and/or cable distribution.

•    May, 2008 - Interviewed for large article in local newspaper, Masters of Their Domain, in June, 08 issue of The Austin American Statesman.

•    August, 2008 – Asked by the Director of Programming to host a weekly/one hour radio show, ‘The Midlife Gals; Necessary Insanity,’ on BlogTalkRadio ( http://www.blogtalkradio.com/TheMidlifeGals )

•    September, 2008 – Signed with literary agent, Frank Breeden of Premiere Authors for our book, “The Midlife Gals; Necessary Insanity.”

 

December, 2008 – Featured as one of Austin’s best websites / Austin Monthly magazine / Keep Austin Wired /pg 134.

– Featured as one of Austin’s best websites / Austin Monthly magazine / Keep Austin Wired /pg 134.

 

March, 2009 - The Midlife Gals video (The Big Lebowski: A Midlife Homage) picked as part of Reel Women’s film showcase at South by Southwest Film Festival, Austin, TX.

 

May, 2009 – Asked to be regular writers and videographers for More Magazine online.

 

September, 2009 – Featured in the Austin American Statesman newspaper as two of Austin’s “2009 Fortunate 500” – Media category.

 

February, 2010 – Shot two national commercials for Charter Communications.

 

March, 2010 – Featured in an article in the Wall Street Journal /March 27th/ “When Siblings Step Up” http://tinyurl.com/yjesd6a

 

March, 2010– Two videos in SouthSlam Festival during SXSW, Austin, TX.

Awards - ”Best Slapstick Comedy”  -

Side Effects - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmROZYrdJHg

and “Best Situational Comedy” – Dating in the Eighties Dot Com - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCfrnSiz57E  

 

April, 2010 – Featured in Austin Monthly Magazine/Page 96/How to be Happy in Midlife

 

 
Profession: 
The Smothers Brothers With Bosoms
Location: 
Austin, TX
About Me Tags: 

midlife humor, sisters, the midlife gals, comediennes, midlife comedy, baby boomer women, boomer sisters, boomer humor

 

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