(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, …
Manhattan, 1955: Finding Beauty in Unexpected Places – Georgene Clower Read More »
(originally written at the beginning of Advent in 1998, updated in November 2017) Although I’m agnostic, every Christmas season as our children were growing up I looked forward to the …
Why This Agnostic Looks Forward to Putting Out the Christmas Creche – Georgene Clower 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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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, …
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. …
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 …
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 …
Lisa Tjaarda – Love, School, and The Most Unlikely Soulmates Read More »
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. …
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 …
Jill Smolowe – Falling in Love Again as a Midlife Widow 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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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, …
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 …
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 …
Geneva Coleman – The Words That Caught My Attention Read More »
If you’re a reader of Conscious Dating you know that I’ve been married and divorced twice. After my last divorce I thought I met my soul mate but that relationship …
