Midlife Bloggers Unite

For many months I’ve been writing personal essays mostly to myself.  I’ve been trying to cultivate a practice of reflective writing.  The most obvious material has been right in front of me… raising two girls.  But increasingly I’ve been reflecting on other issues, like being middle aged (whatever that means).  My thoughts are not just about parenting, or being female, or a working mom, but about aging, friendships, finding balance in a world with relentless demands, and about spirituality and health.  (The irony is that I teach mind-body techniques to other women and it is an effort to practice them myself.) Writing in isolation is a lonely venture so I’ve made a commitment to staying and getting connected with other women – Sort of a prescription for health.

Yesterday I had lunch with a friend who had just learned of the death of a childhood friend’s husband – age 44, just three weeks after a cancer diagnosis.  This fell upon the heels of me getting a call from a dear friend, age 41, who was have having an emergency CAT scan that afternoon.  My lunch mate had told me that her mother had once said that if you get through your forties with your health intact, then the rest of life – the second half – is a pretty sturdy ride more or less. 

And it was raining out, to add to the strange overture of our lunch date.   But lunch was yummy and our conversation turned to more pleasant topics, like finally finding ourselves in a good place in life.

That said I was delighted when I came across a post at BlogHer calling out to us middlers a few weeks ago. See original post by MsMesa.  Well, her cry has caused an avalanche of comments, and lo and behold, I have a whole new group of friends.  Thanks to Lori, Between Us Girls, who offered up a blog roll, which I copied, because that is the beauty of social networking. I’ve been checking the comments every day and visiting blogs. And I am truly amazed at the creativity of these women. Check out the blog roll.

Comments

[Carol]

Ah - smart move; copying the blogroll. That may be why I am finding A Different Nest on so many blogrolls! I'm still learning about working smarter, not harder.

Thanks!

[Lori]

Hi!

Sorry I wasn't here to read and comment sooner. I realized my link on my site to your site wasn't working (I'll get right on fixing that on my site). Meanwhile, thanks for the link. I'm trying to keep tabs on all of you mid-life blogger ladies - once I have my link to your site fixed, I'll check in more often.

By the way, I have a lot of posts on mid-life, spirituality, the importance of connecting with other women, death at mid-life etc. on my blog - check them out if you haven't already. Our minds seem to be on the same track!