Contact Us! We’d love to hear from you! Lee writes from the Mountains of Colorado, Barbara writes from steamy Georgia. Although, we’d love to sit down and have a coffee with ya’ll, being at opposite sides of the country is what started us down the path of middleSage. If you have questions for either Barbara or Lee you’re in the right place. If you’d like to guest author here on middleSage, we’d love to have you. If you’ve got […]
My Mother thought I should learn to play piano when I was very young. She liked that woman on the Lawrence Welk Show, I only remember her as the woman whose arms jiggled madly as she played the piano franticly, but her name was Jo Ann Castle. I thought why would I want to do that? My Mother was also the biggest bully in my life. To borrow a line from writer, Merrill Markoe, being raised by a mother like […]
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Looking at the snapshot of the little girl in the blue dress sitting on her grandmother’s rocking chair is surreal. I know that photo is me, but I don’t remember the moment when it was taken. I recognize the surroundings, the rocking chair….but not the moment. Photos allow us to look through the wrong end of a telescope and focus on a past moment. It is all those moments, that string together and make up our lives. I’m from the […]
we’re a mobile society. we move for jobs, retirement and just because we want to. but all that moving around makes it difficult to meet potential friends, let alone develop a deep friendship. more of us have home offices, and while the commute is awesome and corporate casual has a whole different meaning, we can become a bit isolated without the social interaction…..particularly with women our own age. with every move comes the daunting task of trying to re-establish connections […]
