by Sharon Greenthal | *Midlife Musings ~ Sharon Greenthal, Columnist, Mind & Body, Self-Love
Plus Size Model – Do You Think She’s Lovely? Using the photo below, I ran a post on my fb page about the plus-size model industry, and I received an overwhelmingly positive response. She is a beautiful woman. (Featured image and photo below: Plus-size...
by Sharon Greenthal | *Midlife Musings ~ Sharon Greenthal, Columnist, Life Lessons
Karma – What Goes Around, Comes Around Karma. I learned about it a long time ago when I was in college from a co-worker who, when I told her I had been let go from my job after refusing my boss’s inappropriate sexual advances said of him, “what goes around,...
by Sharon Greenthal | *Midlife Musings ~ Sharon Greenthal, Columnist, Friendships
Five Hundred Lunches and Counting I’ve been having lunch with the same three women nearly every week for the past 12-15 years, depending on which of us you ask. We have all known each other for longer than that, and our lunches began innocuously enough –...
by Sharon Greenthal | *Midlife Musings ~ Sharon Greenthal, Columnist, Family & Parenting, Relationships
This Mother’s Day I’ll once again be reminded that I’m a lucky woman. Not everything in my life has gone smoothly – just like everyone else in the world – but I’ve had one thing that’s been pretty amazing. Four generations. My grandmother will be 98 at the end of May....
by Sharon Greenthal | *Midlife Musings ~ Sharon Greenthal, Columnist, Life Lessons
In John Irving’s masterpiece “The World According to Garp,” Garp’s youngest child Walt misunderstands when his father warns him to “look out for the undertow,” hearing his words as “look out for the under toad.” The under toad became, for the child in the book, the...
by Sharon Greenthal | *Midlife Musings ~ Sharon Greenthal, Columnist, Family & Parenting, Life Lessons
There was a great piece in the Huffington Post about why your child didn’t get into the college of their dreams. I read it with an enormous sense of relief that I was past this period of my life, and empathy for all of the parents out there who are going through...
