Dreaming While Middle-Aging (Source: Geo Davis) [NB: This post, more of a lyric essay or freestyle poetic riff than a journalistically sound response to Wajahat Ali's August 28, 2018 op-ed, takes liberties with quotations that may misrepresent the intentions, emphasis, and/or conclusions of the author. All quotations are excerpted from the original, but the nature of remix/mashup alters the ...
Midlife crisis
Carpe Mediae Aetatis Revisited
It's time for a reality check. It's time for a tune up. It's time for carpe mediae aetatis revisited, a flashback to the brazenly bad-Latin post in March 2017 in which I dignified that handsome battle cry banner above. Think, “carpe diem”. Now think, “midlife”. Put it together, and the closest literal translation I’ve come up with is “carpe mediae aetatis”. I like this better… Carpe midlife! It ...
Little Pot Belly
What little pot belly? Me? Are you kidding?!?! [Suck in gut. Turn sideways. Gaze confidently into mirror.] Nope. No little pot belly. Nothing. Not me! I'm trim. Fit. Svelte. Looking better than my thirties. Little pot belly... whatever! Billy Crystal's Midlife Crunch So you're feeling optimistic. You're advancing on your midlife quest for greater creativity and curiosity (and a healthier, ...
Midlife Monologue
I'm curious about your midlife monologue. Everyone's middle age is different. Some don't experience any transition at all (or so they insist), while others wrestle creatively/productively/disastrously/etc. with middle ages's inevitable shifts and changes. What's your midlife experience? Leap, pivot, or crisis? Positive transition or turmoil? Tiny tweaks or ...
Precocious Midlife Crisis
"Everybody should have a midlife crisis! I mean, why wouldn’t you have a midlife crisis? My first midlife crisis was when I was like nine-and-a-half." ~ Jay Wexler (Source: The Boston Globe) I snipped this from an interview with Jay Wexler about his novel, Tuttle in the Balance. His lighthearted riff on midlife crises is woven into a dismissive response to a suggestion that Ed Tuttle, his law ...
39: Prime Time for a Midlife Crisis?
Debate proliferates about when exactly to "prime time for a midlife crisis" begins. Thirty five? Forty? Forty five? Fifty? Fifty five? I remember my mother dismissing my precocious self-references to midlife when I turned 39. That was back at the beginning of this journey, back when I was still feeling a perplexed, sideswiped, and maybe even slightly pissed off about the aging hiccup. It was ...