Middle Aged

The Baby Boomers Commencement Address

Marc Middleton | Posted 05.26.2012

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In a very real way, we're all graduates of the school of life and we all have the opportunity to continue to grow and contribute. So here's my commencement address for all of us approaching or inhabiting middle age and wondering what's next?

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Mother’s Day Recipe for Disaster

Felice Shapiro | Posted 05.11.2012

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I get confused on Mother's Day. My first instinct is to be there for my Mom. A close second, if not a full tie, is that I want to be with my kids. Do I want to be the mother or the motheree? Whose day is it really?

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Should Married People Have Crushes?

BetterAfter50.com | Jeannie Muchnick | Posted 05.23.2012

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SPECIAL FROM BetterAfter50 I’m married –- going on 21 years in fact –- but have a crush on my cute, younger-than-me-still-has-hair allergist....

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How Old is 'Old'?

Posted 05.03.2012

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If age is indeed a number, where do Americans draw the line between middle-aged and elderly? To people age 45 and younger, the line of demarcation...

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Jobless and Middle-aged? A To-Do List for Getting Back to Work

Susanne Goldstein | Posted 12.27.2011

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If you're one of those middle-aged folks, who had a good job and are now frozen in time, here's a to-do list to help get yourself back in the game.

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Middle Class Divorcees: The New Face Of Homelessness?

Posted 12.18.2011

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As boomers reach retirement age, the “Golden Years” have steadily lost their sheen, and the outlook looks bleakest for middle-aged divorcees. A ne...

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Are You A MAMIL?

www.high50.com | Posted 12.14.2011

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If anyone were looking for evidence that in the 21st century we are just as snobbish as ever we have been, then you only have to look at the acronyms ...

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‘Money & Happiness’: Paying For College While Saving For Retirement

Posted 12.10.2011

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This week's webisode of "Money & Happiness" with Laura Rowley focuses on a big challenge for parents: how to pay for college and save for retirement s...

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The Gifts of the Autumn Years

Dr. Judith Rich | Posted 11.21.2011

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Autumn is a time to update the operating system of our life. There are old files and programs to be deleted, hard drives that need cleaning and random access memory to be added. It's time to push the "refresh" button and invent one's self anew.

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Surviving Midlife Without A Crisis

Vivian Diller, Ph.D. | Posted 11.17.2011

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We can look at how to keep this phase from turning into a major life crisis -- not just for ourselves, but for those closest to us -- and how to avoid the collateral damage that can be left along the way.

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My Post-Divorce Fling: The Ultimate Cliché

Vicki Larson | Posted 05.25.2011

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Excerpted and revised from Knowing Pains: Women on Love, Sex and Work in Our 40s, a fundraiser for the Breast Cancer Fund. "Who's that?" my older s...

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'Swear' by It: Gaining Confidence With Age

Lori Sokol | Posted 11.17.2011

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The importance of conflict should not be underestimated, and the need to sometimes curse should be even less so.

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Aging: The Secret Life of the Middle-Aged Brain

Barbara Strauch | Posted 11.17.2011

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By middle age most of us, if we're honest, are a bit concerned about what's going on inside our heads. We worry about getting old; we worry about getting sick. But we really worry about losing our minds.

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