Creative Success Depends on Long View
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In this podcast, we feature author Taylor Marsh, who [read more]
The Midlife Sage Asks: What’s So Funny?
The words “Cook in your underwear” aren’t that funny.
But in the context of a speech I gave last week to the Idaho Association of School Administrators, the phrase prompted 500 people to spontaneously laugh out loud. For a speaker and [...]
Relationship Advice From The Movies
I just realized I’ve been doing the relationship thing all wrong.
You see, lately I’ve been watching a lot of movies—good, bad and, quite frankly, ugly—and to quote Oscar Wilde, “Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less [...]
All Talk And No Action
Last night a friend and I went to the quintessential Hollywood party: it was at a fabulous house in the Hollywood Hills with a pool and a view that was just begging to be on a postcard.
It was attended by attractive men and women in cocktail [...]
Podcast: Going Gypsy! From Empty Nest To No Nest At All
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David and Veronica James are authors of Going Gypsy: One Couple’s Adventure from Empty Nest to No Nest at All, a warm, funny memoir about their decision to sell the nest, hit the highway and look at this phase of life [...]
Podcast: This Is What Happens When A Comic Goes On 500 Dates
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Mark Miller was a self proclaimed, veritable, virginal social and dating outcast that became a nationally syndicated dating columnist for the LA Times Syndicate, Huffington Post and countless other media, as well as a writer producer [...]
Why Funny is Always Fashionable
You know you’re at peace with yourself and the universe if you can enter a crowded social function, scan the room, and then join the group creating the most laughter.
After a certain age, you don’t waste time with pseudo-intellectuals, plastic-faced [...]
Hallucinating With Storybook Friends
I recently experienced a knee injury so painful that I sobbed until tears and snot covered my face, and I ignored my mother’s admonishment to wear fancy underwear before going to the hospital.
After x-rays confirmed damaged ligaments, a doctor [...]
The Midlife Sage: How To Plan And Survive Your Midlife Birthday
By: Elaine Ambrose
September 10, 2014 | Comments Off on The Midlife Sage: How To Plan And Survive Your Midlife Birthday
My most memorable childhood birthday could be a case study for why some people need therapy.
My mother’s baby died during childbirth a few weeks before my 8th birthday, so my gift was a big doll with all the clothes that had been intended [...]
Midlife Dating: That Hot Feeling Isn’t Always Menopause
By: Elaine Ambrose
September 5, 2014 | Comments Off on Midlife Dating: That Hot Feeling Isn’t Always Menopause
Nothing screams “pathetic loser” more than being a middle-aged divorcee alone at a festive party where beautiful couples are trading sloppy kisses and giggling like demented clowns.
There’s not enough spiked punch in the world to soften [...]
Podcast: 5 Ways To Tell If You’re Codependent
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Have you ever awakened in the middle of the night to re-hash a conversation that happened yesterday, or even years ago? Ever stalked someone online, at work, or found yourself holed up in the trunk of a lover’s car so you could [...]
The Midlife Sage Says: Go Hang A Banana
The world is smoldering toward catastrophic self-destruction, so it’s only sensible that I take a brief moment of clarity to offer this lovely tidbit of advice before the final tragic calamity ignites the end of civilization.
If you want to [...]
Shakin’ The Salt!
When I first started dating my college sweetheart, I thought his last name was so cute – Bud Peppers. Of course the Beatles popular Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band was still popular and I sang it all the time.
Then as graduation [...]
Podcast: The Midlife Laughter Challenge
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Elaine Ambrose, who through her books, blogs, and speaking engagements, encourages women over fifty to discover the happiness that comes from having a consistent laughter routine.
Her new book, Midlife Cabernet, recently won a [...]
Does The Name Make The Man?
What’s in a name, you may ask?
Well, Juliet (as in Romeo and) believes “that which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet,” because names are a meaningless convention and it’s the person behind the name that counts.
I [...]
Conversations with The Tuesday Night Girls: What’s Your Pet Peeve?
By: Claire Butler
July 8, 2014 | Comments Off on Conversations with The Tuesday Night Girls: What’s Your Pet Peeve?
For Cara, it’s leaving lights on in an empty room; for Mootsie, it’s finding discarded socks and shoes leaving a trail behind where others’ feet have traveled.
For me, it had always been technology. You love it except for [...]
The Joys Of Traveling With Your Children (Over 30)
By: Elaine Ambrose
July 8, 2014 | Comments Off on The Joys Of Traveling With Your Children (Over 30)
If given the choice between traveling with small children and having a root canal, I’d be at the dentist office sucking laughing gas before noon.
I adore kids but the logistics of getting them more than 100 miles is too much to endure [...]
Why George Clooney Should Date Me
George Clooney has a lot of things going for him.
He is a successful actor, a handsome man, and a charismatic philanthropist. What he doesn’t have going for him is his choice of suitable girlfriends. For someone who claims to not want marriage [...]
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