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Living your best life at any age

 Middle-aged-diva ― http://www.middle-aged-diva.blogspot.com

Part inspirational, part humor, part commentary, I look at life from just past its midpoint and share thoughts, opinions and even a few reviews. I often blog about my travels.My blog draws both men and women readers, and I love comments.

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Listed: Sep 13, 2011

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Girlfriends & destiny

Girlfriends & destiny

Living your best life at any age ― Girlfriends are sisters that destiny forgot to give you. ∙ Oh, I'm not so sure that destiny forgets much.So it has to be purposeful. ∙ March came in like both a lion and a lamb,with an aborted visit to my favorite Tampa women...

Tags: Girlfriends

Middle-aged-diva ― 3 weeks 6 days ago

Recipient insane: meds needed

Recipient insane: meds needed

Living your best life at any age ― from collage by Laura Kennedy ∙ I dreamed that you bewitched me into bed ∙ And sung me moon-struck, kissed me quite insane. ∙ (I think I made you up inside my head.)-Sylvia Plath ∙ Oh, such a doomed woman, but still,I ...

Tags: Creativity, Plath, Insanity

Middle-aged-diva ― 4 weeks ago

Senior Citizen discounts EVERYWHERE!

Senior Citizen discounts EVERYWHERE!

Living your best life at any age ― This is your lucky day! ∙ Today's post is a public service citizen for Boomers and those even older. ∙ That's right, an entire post listing fabulous senior citizen discounts and freebies, offered by Boomer- and senior-friendly...

Tags: Senior Discounts

Middle-aged-diva ― 4 weeks 1 day ago

I see my path but the destination's a mystery

I see my path but the destination's a mystery

Living your best life at any age ― Oh, the many places we've been in our lives! ∙ Have you counted? The places where your life played out: your childhood home. The tree on which you and your sweetheart carved your initials. The college bar where you met your husband. The ...

Tags: Memory Lane, Life, History

Middle-aged-diva ― 4 weeks 2 days ago

Flowers when you're dead

Flowers when you're dead

Living your best life at any age ― in a bucket-Union Square SF florist ∙ who wants flowers when you're dead? nobody.J.D. Salinger, Catcher in the Rye ∙ That's right.Nobody. ∙ I don't like those funeral wreathsand huge formal things on standsartificially ...

Tags: Funeral, Flowers

Middle-aged-diva ― 4 weeks 3 days ago

Serendipty, synchronicity & being here now

Serendipty, synchronicity & being here now

Living your best life at any age ― Painting in Sonoma, Calif.Let me set the scene: Girlfriend and I were in the car on our way to San Francisco to see Acid Test, a play about Ram Dass, the spiritual teacher responsible for the mantra, Be Here Now, back in the 1960s. ∙ Be ...

Tags: Ram Dass, Serendipity, Synchronicity

Middle-aged-diva ― 4 weeks 4 days ago

What you put into it

What you put into it

Living your best life at any age ― Whisk n Ladle, La Jolla, CAAny cook will tell you that you get out of the pot what you put into it. ∙ Drop in fresh, delicious ingredientsand your dish will be delectable. ∙ Anyone engaged in the business of life will tell you that's...

Tags: Pot, Whisk N Ladle

Middle-aged-diva ― 4 weeks 5 days ago

Blue nights, blue rest-of-life

Blue nights, blue rest-of-life

Living your best life at any age ― Vague and repetitive, that's what one reader complained of Blue Nights on Amazon. Still, I love Joan Didion and have loved her since 1970 or so, when, too young to even know what literary fiction even was, I read Slouching Toward Bethlehem. I ...

Tags: Memoir, Blue NIghts, Joan Didion

Middle-aged-diva ― 4 weeks 6 days ago

Holding space where we R authentic true

Holding space where we R authentic true

Living your best life at any age ― Stephanie Paige/Holding Space ∙ I've loved modern art since the mid-1970s, the day I walked into the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, DC and saw their incredible collection. It was my first real exposure to contemporary art and since then, ...

Tags: Holding Space, Art

Middle-aged-diva ― 5 weeks ago

Life as a spinner game

Life as a spinner game

Living your best life at any age ― There are times when life reminds me of a game: take a spin and when the arrow lands, well, move in that direction. ∙ I've always lived as though I were mistressof my own destiny, but looking back, I wonderhow much control I really had....

Tags: Spinner, Life

Middle-aged-diva ― 5 weeks 1 day ago

Soft light hold me

Soft light hold me

Living your best life at any age ― Acqui Terme / Italy ∙ ChantHold me hard lightSoft light hold meMoonlight in your mountains fold meHold me hard light, soft light hold me~Leonard Cohen ∙ We've hardly had time to take a breath since our last national tragedy and now...

Tags: Violence, Leonard Cohen, Boston

Middle-aged-diva ― 5 weeks 2 days ago

Spring cleaning for the psyche

Spring cleaning for the psyche

Living your best life at any age ― Pops of color against white remind us that spring is here. ∙ I don't know about you, but this winter had way too much dark and drear. People in my sphere brought with them awful, almost black energy, blotting out some of the sunshine and ...

Tags: Spring Cleaning

Middle-aged-diva ― 5 weeks 3 days ago

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