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Hair in All the Wrong Places

A Middle-Aged Woman Laughs (and Cringes) at Wandering HairBy: Mary Fran BontempoMy daughter was staring. “You have a hair on your chin,” she announced.“What?!” I shrieked. “Where?” “Right there,” she said, pointing. “It’s pretty long, too.”“Oh my god! I yelped, frantically slapping at my face.“Go like this,” Laura gestured, wiggling a finger under her own, youthfully hair-free chin, “you’ll feel it.”Sure enough, there it was defiantly poking its way out of the bottom [...]

Mary Fran Bontempo2018-10-30T09:56:51-04:00August 31st, 2010|2 Comments

Laughing @ Middle Age. a Cartoon by Pat Achilles

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Mary Fran Bontempo2018-10-30T09:56:51-04:00August 30th, 2010|1 Comment

Men in Cats Clothing

by Chrysa SmithIn the warmer months of the year, my husband's been known to play on up to three recreational softball teams at the same time. Who's afraid of growing old? I digress. Forgive me. The real point of my writing here is not to talk about his desire to keep the athlete running well into senior years, but to talk and giggle about middle-age men, just as catty and manipulative as a [...]

Mary Fran Bontempo2018-10-30T09:56:52-04:00August 25th, 2010|1 Comment

All It Takes is a Mountain of Mud

A Middle-Aged Woman Laughs--and Cries--Over the MuckBy: Mary Fran Bontempo They finally plugged it up.After nearly four months of destruction, when an explosion blew open an under water oil well, B.P. finally figured out the technology necessary to cap the well and halt the spewing oil, which had devastated wildlife and livelihoods throughout the Gulf Coast of the United States.Technically speaking, the fix wasn’t all that complicated, at least conceptually. Fill the pipeline [...]

Mary Fran Bontempo2018-10-30T09:56:52-04:00August 24th, 2010|0 Comments

Laughing @ Middle Age, a Cartoon by Pat Achilles

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Mary Fran Bontempo2018-10-30T09:56:52-04:00August 23rd, 2010|0 Comments

A Middle-Aged Woman Laughs at a Fairy Tale (and at Real Life!)By: Mary Fran BontempoHe gallops in astride a snorting white steed, swooping down to scoop up his true love, whisking her off to a life of romance, her every need met, to live happily ever after.Ah, it’s the stuff of fairy tales. And despite the fact that more recent versions—Mulan, Enchanted, Shrek—have skewered the "woman as helpless" model, truth is, the fairy [...]

Mary Fran Bontempo2018-10-30T09:56:53-04:00August 17th, 2010|4 Comments