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Elaine Ambrose


Elaine Ambrose is an award-winning author and publisher from Eagle, Idaho. Her new book Midlife Cabernet won the Silver Medal for Humor from the 2014 Independent Publisher Book Awards program (IPPY) and received a 4-Star review from ForeWord Reviews. Her book Menopause Sucks humorously informs hot women what they should do before they break something. Her blog Midlife Cabernet provides sassy tips for middle-aged women on her web site, www.ElaineAmbrose.com.


Elaine’s company, Mill Park Publishing, received the 2012 Independent Book Publisher Award (IPPY) for publishing a collection of short stories about weddings dresses – the good, bad, and forever-boxed. She donates proceeds from her books to local charities. Her short stories appear in several national anthologies, and she organizes writer’s retreats in central Idaho. Elaine is a popular public speaker and her most requested topic is “Live Happy or Die Crabby.” Elaine lives and laughs with her husband and is cheerfully tolerated by her grown children and delightful grandchildren. An avid traveler, Elaine has visited 30 countries around the world but enjoys being home writing stories, preferably fueled with a bold Cabernet.


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Posts by Elaine Ambrose:

  • The Midlife Sage Says: Here’s a Survival Guide in Five Easy Paragraphs
    • January 18th, 2013
    Life experience. Some of you have been around the block enough times to know where to avoid the mud and dog poop or when to stop and smell the roses. Others, however, refuse to try a better path so they continue to trip [...]




  • The Midlife Sage Says: Plan Your Own Play Day
    • January 11th, 2013
    Local children get all excited when the schools are closed for a snow day. As an evolving curmudgeon, I snort with scorn because in my day we walked miles through a blizzard for the privilege of going to school so we [...]




  • The Midlife Sage Says: How to Raise Amazing Children
    • January 4th, 2013
    My son works in law enforcement. His job often requires him to enter homes where good parenting skills aren’t a priority. It’s difficult to prepare a nutritious family meal when the kitchen has been converted into [...]




  • The Midlife Sage Says: Make Your Own Music In 2013
    • December 27th, 2012
    The songs of the holidays. I grew up listening to The Captain and Tennille singing about “Muskrat Love” and The Carpenters warbling “Sing of good things, not bad. Sing of happy, not sad.” I believe those two [...]




  • The Midlife Sage Says: Tell Your Story In A December Journal
    • December 19th, 2012
    Put down your peppermint schnapps and find a quiet place so you can write about the past year. Summarize all the fun and fabulous, the rotten and wretched, and the clever and comedic parts of 2012. Then hide your journal, [...]




  • The Midlife Sage Says: Blended Families Can Survive The Holidays Without A Food Fight
    • December 12th, 2012
    Your family tree. It could be in danger of falling over because the branches are laden with sporadic offshoots, new in-laws, old stepparents, and assorted children who share multiple homes. But because of extra care [...]




  • The Midlife Sage Says: You Can Balance Tough Lady With Bawl Baby
    • December 7th, 2012
    My two-month-old granddaughter cries for three main reasons. Either she’s hungry, she’s tired, or her diapers are dirty. I don’t need to be changed, but I could really use a sandwich and a nap. Maybe if I cry out [...]




  • The Midlife Sage Says: Share Some Time, Beer and/or Pie with Your Mother-in-law
    • November 30th, 2012
    Unless your mother-in-law is a convicted felon or a pole dancer at the Kit Kat Klub, you should try and spend quality one-on-one time with her. After all, she raised the person you married. If she lives far away, keep [...]




  • The Midlife Sage Says: Avoid The Platitude About Gratitude
    • November 19th, 2012
    Feeling guilty because your Thanksgiving experience never resembles the Norman Rockwell painting of a happy family gathered around a lovely table as Grandma in her white apron proudly delivers a perfect turkey? Instead, [...]




  • The Midlife Sage Says: Write – But Don’t Send – That Snarky Email
    • November 13th, 2012
    Most of you can relate to this egregious error: Some fool offends you on a bad day so you have no other option but to get revenge with the instant brass knuckles available through the Internet. Normally a sweetheart, [...]




  • The Midlife Sage Says: If You Didn’t Vote, Don’t Complain
    • November 6th, 2012
    I’ll be SO happy when the national election is over because we can go back to debating important issues, such as which wine to have with weinersnitchel. After serious research and exploratory activities, I’ve concluded [...]




  • Why Adults Should Dress Up for Halloween
    • October 29th, 2012
    Why should kids have all the fun? I used to dress up as a clown and accompany my children on their Halloween trick-or-treat trips. Instead of a bucket for candy, I carried a wine glass. Sometimes it was meager pickings [...]




  • Five Top Tips for Young Women
    • October 23rd, 2012
    There is no need to search for the Elusive Magic Guru of All Answers or schedule appointments with an expensive shrink. Take some free advice from a well-seasoned traveler of life who scrambled out on the positive [...]




  • Let’s Talk About Shoes
    • October 15th, 2012
    Go buy shoes. There is only one thing to do when the world’s calamities conspire with personal and professional pressures to dump a load of crap on your head: go buy shoes. We love getting new shoes because we know [...]




  • Why Run Away To Join The Circus When It’s At Home?
    • October 10th, 2012
    Remember that crazed clown at the circus? He was the one spinning a dozen flaming torches while peddling a unicycle on a high wire as the out-of-tune calliope wheezed out a medley of manic music. Now as a young woman [...]




  • Midlife Sage-What I Wish I Had Known As A Young Woman
    • September 24th, 2012
    Avoid the muck Women spend too many years struggling and stressing through all the crap of daily life before they finally realize the aching truth: Damn, I should have taken the path around the bog! That’s the road [...]