Advice on How to Fund Your Dream of College Because of family issues and money, I didn’t graduate college until I was noticeably older than my classmates. I hope that no matter how long I had t...
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Discover practical tips for managing debt over 50 and take control of your financial future. Learn to navigate the challenges of debt while ensuring you can enjoy your golden years without financ...
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“Although you are an extremely qualified candidate, we have decided to move forward with another candidate for this position.” “I’m sorry, but we shouldn’t see each other anymore. You�...
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This post was sponsored by Amazon in partnership with Forward Influence. However, all thoughts and opinions are my own. I’m not great at Christmasing. My husband is super good at it, and does m...
Divorced and dreading Christmas? Well, Thanksgiving is done and we’ve survived Black Friday. But we’re not through the holiday abyss yet. Which means we’ll most likely be dreading the stres...
Yes, You Can Beat Divorce Stress It was 1:30am about two weeks after my husband moved out, and I sat hunched over the computer, eyes glazed, head throbbing, convinced that the world would end if ...
Getting your life back after divorce can be hard, especially when you’re over 50. There are financial issues, retirement, and logistics issues that leave us feeling exhausted, wondering if we�...
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So You Want to Write a Novel Interested in learning how to write a novel? For many mid-lifers writing a novel or memoir is an aspiration on their bucket list. After all, we have years of experien...
Are You Lonely After A Divorce? Loneliness sucks. It’s normal to be lonely after divorce. It’s a horrible feeling to think you have nobody in the world to turn to as you are trying to make ...
Is My Husband Having a Midlife Crisis? Aging is a hard thing for many people to face and for some, accepting that they are reaching midlife and no longer the seemingly-invincible person that they...
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If you’re at or beyond midlife, you’ve inhabited this planet long enough to know that Woody Allen had it right when he said, “If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans.” Th...
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Dealing with Rejection “Although you are an extremely qualified candidate, we have decided to move forward with another candidate for this position.” “I’m sorry, but we shouldn’t see ea...
I wasn’t always the Midlife Boulevard travel editor. Before I morphed into a travel blogger, I was a lawyer. I graduated from law school in another century, 20 years before Y2K. In case you’r...
Mourning the Loss of Parenting, and the Grief of the Empty Nest The first year empty nest hit, I think I counted each and every day “since he left for college.” “He’s been gone two months...
Recently, while talking about our kids graduating high school and venturing off to figure out where they fit into the world, we also found ourselves daydreaming about helping them shop department...
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Still Adding to Your Family? Raising a Grandchild? Whether you are still having children, raising a grandchild, or adding to your family through adoption, you know that finances change as the fam...
How many of you are already started planning your “New Year’s resolutions” even though it is only November? I think some of us have a year-long list that just keeps going and going and at t...
This post first appeared on www.sixtyandme.com. Martin Luther said, “You cannot keep birds from flying over your head, but you can keep them from building a nest in your hair.” It is a though...
People who have more than one child often remark how different their offspring are from each other. We appear to have raised one traditional person — and a digital nomad. I kind of saw both ou...
Our dogs are like family. Still, you shouldn’t feed dogs much of what people eat every day. Many staple foods, drinks, and snacks that we ingest can cause a multitude of problems for dogs, incl...
Saving money is critically important in today’s society. Unfortunately, a majority of adults are still struggling with high levels of debt and lack of a personal budget to help save for the fut...
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Having Problems Talking to Your Grown Children? Need advice on how to talk to your adult children? This post from Christine Field originally appeared on her site, Real Mom Life. When your child w...
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We’re remodeling a kitchen. People don’t know whether to congratulate us when they hear that we are remodeling a kitchen, or look at us with a fair amount of pity. We’re in the middle of th...
The Best Way To Spring Clean Spring is one of my very favorite seasons for many reasons: the weather gets warmer, the flowers bloom, I get to celebrate my birthday and most of all… because it�...
As new grandparents, we face many trials – becoming car-seat competent may be one of the most challenging. Using proper car safety seats is one of the most important factors in driving safely w...
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