Aren’t most of us swept along by life with hardly a moment to call our own? If you have a job, a spouse, and especially kids, it’s hard to carve a single moment out of all that for you. But, in one of those serendipitous moments, Allison and a couple of other bloggers posted about Virginia Woolf’s famous essay, A Room Of One’s Own within a few days of each other.
That essay has some far reaching food for thought concerning our busyness, our identity and our lives.
Any woman who is going through menopause recognizes that ‘wanna stay’/’wanna go’, push me/pull you tension that shifting hormones bring. Am I withering on the vine, or am I just preparing for a new burst of vitality? more than one woman has asked herself. S’not always that easy to know which it is.
Our member, Carol Chapman, humorously captures those menopausal, schizophrenic impulses in this poem. It is sure to make you chuckle!
Who among us HASN’T wondered where the self confidence of our youth has gone? Somehow, all that energy and ‘can do’ attitude is harder to muster. I’ve noticed this with myself and many other midlife sisters...we want to reinvent with gusto—and some of us do—but for many, years of life experience have tempered our optimism.
Our member, Jean White, has poignantly expressed that feeling in this thoughtful essay. What do we do to recapture our self-confidence?
Aren’t most of us swept along by life with hardly a moment to call our own? If you have a job, a spouse, and especially kids, it’s hard to carve a single moment out of all that for you. But, in one of those serendipitous moments, Allison and a couple of other bloggers posted about Virginia Woolf’s famous essay, A Room Of One’s Own within a few days of each other.
Any woman who is going through menopause recognizes that ‘wanna stay’/’wanna go’, push me/pull you tension that shifting hormones bring. Am I withering on the vine, or am I just preparing for a new burst of vitality? more than one woman has asked herself. S’not always that easy to know which it is.
Who among us HASN’T wondered where the self confidence of our youth has gone? Somehow, all that energy and ‘can do’ attitude is harder to muster. I’ve noticed this with myself and many other midlife sisters...we want to reinvent with gusto—and some of us do—but for many, years of life experience have tempered our optimism..jpg)
