Posts Tagged ‘denial’

More Than Muddling Through

Friday, August 8th, 2008

What’s the alternative to muddling through life, pretending that your permanent condition is just a temporary one? As the signs of the shortening of the years become more obvious, how do keep yourself from taking more and more outlandish risks just to prove that you don’t see what you see, feel what you feel, and know what you know?

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Do Fewer Women Have Midlife Crises?

Sunday, August 3rd, 2008

I suspect — alright: I believe — that the infamous midlife crisis is a product of our particularly western culture. I also believe that the closer one’s culture comes to the North American version, the more severe the midlife crisis is apt to be for the male (if not for the female) of our species.

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