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Having written for women's Web sites and contributed to several women's books over the past 12 years, Dena continues to examine as well as celebrate midlife with a vengeance (and a sense of humor) reserved only for women who have been there, done that.

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School Daze -- is your child or grandchild performing at grade level or higher?

The excuse is as old as Boomers and possibly older. Your child or grandchild gets to school and walks up the teacher with wide eyes claiming the dog...
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Boomers and seniors go bonkers with online introductions

Move over, 30-somethings. Boomers aren’t going to ignore a good thing when they see it. Ellen McCarthy, in her Washington Post article Room for...
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Are some parents just better at parenting when they go it alone?

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In Jill Brooke’s recent Huffington Post article, Do Men Become Better or Worse Fathers After Divorce, she points out that a growing trend shows...
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Domestic violence knows no social class

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We are the ones you rarely hear about when you study the reasons behind divorce statistics: Educated women like myself, who stayed in abusive marital...
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Two for the road

Midlfe demands some of the toughest marital transitions of all . . . . You and your husband talked about it for years: what life would be like when...
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Taking carry-on baggage only into the next relationship

We have choices in life, and women tend to be even better than men at making them, since we are the responsible ones; the thinkers; the barometers in...
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Maybe he’s just not that into you . . .

Everything went great on the first and even the second date. So why doesn’t he call? Chances are he has some pretty good reasons, but they are...
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Seasons that light(en) our journeys

Last year's Mother's Day hinted at it. My 20-something daughter insisted on taking me to lunch at a pre-ordained restaurant and even included her new...
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Agreeing to disagree on politics is so much easier . . .

Okay, I get it that the news is important. I always have.My father was adamant about Walter Cronkite pre-empting anything else my brothers, mother or...
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Singing to each other

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No matter how hard I try, I can’t blot out the childhood memory of sitting in a row of other girls against the gymnasium wall, being among the...
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