I have just got too much going on lately. Let’s face it actually, we all have too much going on! When my co-blogger Jim LaPierre posted his essay in Get A Life, I never planned on taking two months to … Continue reading
In preparation of reading today’s blog Jim encourages you play the Who’s My Generation Remember being an early adolescent and there were words you were too embarrassed to ask what they meant? It seems that’s come full circle for me. … Continue reading
In Part 2 of Relating to Our Adult Children, Jim shares his views on parenting past and present. My closest friends and family tease me that I’m everyone’s dad. My kids grew up knowing that there is no conflict in … Continue reading
This month, in their continuing series on all the relationships in our lives, Karen and Jim will discuss our evolving relationships with our adult children. Way back in 1984 when I found out I was pregnant with my first child, … Continue reading
In part two of our continuing series on all the relationships in our lives, Jim and Karen discuss our relationship with our bodies in middle age. Jim started out the discussion in part one “Relating to our (Groan) Middle Aged … Continue reading
Jim shares part one: I want to live long enough to see my son go through his forties. At the moment he is 23, ten feet tall, and bullet proof. He’s athletic, trim, and in every bit the condition I … Continue reading
When Karen and I decided to write about exes, I had to risk annoying my good friend by telling her that I don’t have any. I met my wife when I was 17. We married when I was 20. I … Continue reading
In the next installment in our series on all the relationships is our lives, Karen discusses our relationships with our exes! Stay tuned for Jim’s response in part two. Recently, when Jim, Brigitte and I got together to discuss the … Continue reading
Karen presents part two in our discussion on our relationships with our co-workers! Relationships with co-workers are some of the most frustrating relationships in our lives. Unlike friends, we don’t get to choose our co-workers. As Jim mentioned, they are … Continue reading
Jim presents part one of our discussion on relating to folks in the workplace. Karen will follow up in two weeks. Having a full time job means that over a third of our waking hours are spent at our place … Continue reading
