Category Archives: Friendships

Not a Typical Mother’s Day Story: Lessons I’ve Learned from Barb Coleman


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When I was finishing college, my dad wrote a letter telling me he had been talking about me to his friends and how proud he was of me. He said it then occurred to him that he should share the good things he was saying with me. So I’m taking up my dad’s example, and telling you how proud and grateful I am to have Barb Coleman, my blog partner and friend of many years, in my life. This is […]

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My Blog hop….My Generation…My Tribe!


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We just had the privilege of taking part in our first Blog hop with a tremendous group of ….”mature ladies”….ladies that like us – write.  Generation Fabulous was the group coordinating all of our posts on Aging Gracefully.  Each of us writing on the same topic, but with our own perspective….I learned a lot about the company we keep here in the blogging world.  It’s a small world and even though most of us have never met each other, we […]

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Where are my middle aged friends….my tribe?


Seth Godin argues the Internet has ended mass marketing and revived a human social unit from the distant past: tribes. Founded on shared ideas and values, tribes give ordinary people the power to lead and make big change.  I heard the term “tribes” used recently on a couple of TV programs (no, not National Geographic) and it made me think about how we use this word. In my early years, there were “clicks” throughout my school years, Either I belonged […]

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