(a memory from the summer 1955, just after I had turned 8years old. Written sometime around 1997.) I’m lying on the daybed in the den, halfway between sleep and wakefulness, in that liminal state where the boundary between dream and reality is blurred. It’s late at night, but still so hot that the sheet beneath …
Manhattan, 1955: Finding Beauty in Unexpected Places Read More »
Our youth is a gift from God; aging into our real beauty is our gift to God. Sixteen years ago I was in the throes of my second divorce and about to turn forty. For all I knew, my world had ended and my finding love or anything else for that matter, after forty was …
Pamela Nebeker – Youth, Beauty, and Gifts from God Read More »
So I was recently writing about having rediscovered my Soulmate right at home in my own husband of 33 years and kept thinking, “but there is something more I want to tell you…and it is important!” Not only have I been fortunate enough to establish a new love story with my mate, I have also …
Lisa Tjaarda – Big Love in the Fifth Decade: The B Side Read More »
It was 1965. A hot, wet summer in Alabama. At age eleven, I was taking my very first (of what would become many) drama classes. A thin blonde boy was guided into the room by his elfin mother with prematurely white-Phil-Donahue-hair who was the most interesting and animated person I’d ever met. I knew at …
It was 1997, I was 51 years old and standing in the middle of my living room floor wondering if I’d ever find love again. In one of the most agonizing and freeing times of my life, my then husband of 30 years both broke my heart and did me the biggest favor I could …
Susie and Otto Collins – For Soulmates, Age Doesn’t Exist Read More »
It was 2011, on the verge of my 51st birthday and I began realizing how lonely I was. This was the year that I wanted to be honest with myself, finally. Feeling alone while sharing a home is one of the loneliest feelings; for the first time, just having a husband and family wasn’t enough. …
Willomena Way – When There’s a Will, There’s a Way Read More »
I have been one known to “push the river,” learning early on how to survive. That way of being has stayed with me all these many years- until now. I am learning how to be nurtured by my new husband- I call him- goodandhandsome. Sometimes I wonder how I have been so lucky to …
Gail first met her soulmate when she was applying for work in his office, but he was already married so that was the end of it. Then years later and many weeks after his marriage ended, he asked her out in the most old-fashioned of ways. True love will keep until its time. Read the …
My fifth decade has not been good in the ways that I had expected. But in this way it has been the best decade of my life yet: This has been the decade in which I began to understand what it really is to love and to receive love. Call it Graduate Studies in the …
Lisa Tjaarda – Love, School, and The Most Unlikely Soulmates Read More »
Diane Rehm, author and NPR radio host, never dreamed love would come calling again. After 54 years of marriage to the late John Rehm, the beloved public radio host had planned a solo life around travel, writing and friends. But the Fates had something different mind. She and John Hagedorn had met 30 years earlier at a …
Let me tell you about my dad. He is amazing, vibrant and full of life. I could not be more fortunate or prouder to have the dad that I do. I am grateful for the love and dedication he has shown to me my whole life. He is one of those dads that never gives …
Deirdre Sommerkamp – It’s Never Too Late to Marry Your Soulmate, My Dad Did! Read More »
Jill Smolowe was only 54 when her beloved husband of 24 years passed away, and it felt odd to have women tell her she was “lucky” to have met Bob 7 months later. What she dad know was that she and Bob were not looking to recreate their previous happy marriages. Instead, were looking for their …
Falling in Love Again as a Midlife Widow – Jill Smolowe Read More »
Yes, I am one of those blessed ladies who found love and a new life after a midlife divorce. But just as with my divorce, and my life now, I didn’t consciously plan it. However, that divorce was the catalyst for so many changes in my life. When I got divorced, I also sold my …
Patti Stevens – I Moved to Sin City and Found My Zen Read More »
I found my true self beginning finally at age 56. Nan’s Transformation began with losing my career/job and discovering how hard it was to find any other persons willing to hire me at age 56. That difficult situation turned out to be my wonderful new beginning. YEAH! Who am I was my regular question on …
Nan Graham Ford – Dancing My Way Through Midlife Read More »
Finally, at the age of 51 I shed the last of the damaging emotional affects of past experiences and fully embraced who I really am. Despite the outward appearance of success, I was dealing with a lot of baggage and had always struggled to understand my worth and purpose. It was literally a Eureka moment …
I call it the year of consequences. 2010 was that year. I was suffering from an abusive marriage that stemmed from his being a doctor who started to prescribe meds to me by the third year of marriage. I am educated, from a good family. No one was more surprised than me to find myself …
Julie Law – Rising from the Fires of Divorce and Trauma Read More »
The clackety-clack of the train that morning will be forever fixed in my memory. I was hung over from the night before, which had become a rather frequent occurrence. Also, I had sent off a few drunk texts to my ex-husband and his girlfriend, which had created a storm of nasty responses from them. Sick, …
When I turned fifty I fell in love with life and with myself. I didn’t plan it that way. What I DID plan was that by fifty I’d finally be free of dyeing my hair, but that was all. And true to my word, I was, my long dyed brunette tresses replaced with a short …
Louise Pendry – Falling in Love with Myself: My love After 50 Story Read More »
It’s only Words, and Words are all I Have, to Take Your Heart Away.” BeeGees, 1967 “I know I’m too old for you, but I think you have a nice smile.” Maybe not the smoothest line in the history of courtship, but that was the message he left on my online dating profile when I …
Geneva Coleman – The Words That Caught My Attention Read More »
Steve and I met through mutual friends on Facebook. For a number of years, we had lived in the same smallish Southern city, but had never met. That’s partly because Charleston is so cut up by rivers and bridges that the various parts of town almost seem like their own little villages. But the main …
