Blogs about your Lifestyle
Midlife Men and Unplanned Exits
February 12, 2012 • Posted under: Mind, Lifestyle
Untimely. Unplanned. Whitney Houston’s death could be characterized by such descriptors. Of course, I could say the same about many people, including family members. Not many of us have a ‘planned exit’ so I suppose it brings to the fore the broader question of what are we doing with the time we are given. The great wizard, Gandalf, said something very much like this in…
Trying to Have it Both Ways in Midlife
February 06, 2012 • Posted under: Mind, Lifestyle, Relationships
Midlife men, we probably can’t have it both ways. Let me explain. I was watching an episode of NCIS this evening, one of my few weekly TV try-to-watch shows, ok, my only weekly try-to-watch show outside of the evening news. Anyhow, this particular show was a bit annoying in its format as it was moving Gibbs, the big cheese of an investigative unit, back and forth from the present to voices…
Making Room for a Midlife Relationship
October 21, 2011 • Posted under: Lifestyle, Relationships
As a midlife man, do you find that you overload yourself with activities? Look, I find the single midlife lifestyle to be very rewarding in many respects. It can be at the very least a less complicated life, potentially, a life which is largely about, well, me. I’m simply stating a fact. Of course, I do have an employer that has expectations that I must attend to, and…
Living Midlife: Planned or Engaged
October 09, 2011 • Posted under: Mind, Lifestyle
While I suppose major life transitions are difficult for all of us, for midlife males I think it is perhaps even more so. I started reading a book on growing older and in the introduction the author attributes a statement to E.M. Forster, an English writer of the last century, a statement that caused me to ponder a bit: “We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so…
Changing One’s Course in Midlife
September 03, 2011 • Posted under: Mind, Spirit, Lifestyle, Relationships
I find that as a midlife man, I value autonomy more and more. I chose the word autonomy over a word that at first seems quite similar - independence. I felt that in some sense there was a real difference between the two, one that I wanted to use. As part of my pre-writing reading, I Google these two words to see if any meaningful differences had been discussed elsewhere and came…
When Do You Stop Chasing
April 17, 2011 • Posted under: Finances, Lifestyle
Midlife men: I don’t know if this blog entry will be characterized as whining or simply the mumblings of one confused midlife male. As always, I invite you to go with me as I talk out loud here and hopefully WE will arrive at a mutually satisfactory place by the end of this. Let me start by saying that I am a somewhat driven person, achievement oriented. Some might say overly…
