Materfamilias Writes

As We Are: Women + Sexuality + Age

As We Are: Women + Sexuality + Age

A few months ago I wrote about a literary excerpt that featured a 60-something woman thinking back on a long sexual relationship with her husband. I wondered if there was room here for a conversation about topics that excerpt could open — and received many encouraging comments indicating interest. So I’m starting that conversation today with a memory of a Sixty-something birthday lunch I attended when I was young — Fortyish-young, at least. Then I turn to a memoir to introduce a Very Bold Sixty-Something (she did What?!) and hope by the end of the post, I’ve made some space for us to chat. Please click to read more.

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On Training My Vulnerability Muscle

On Training My Vulnerability Muscle

As I told you in this post,  my Italian teacher — Ciao, G! — mentioned my blog in class the other evening. Our Avanzato class was introducing ourselves to each other as we began the…

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Retirement Move, Interrupted. . . . Or, After Covid, Portugal.. .

Retirement Move, Interrupted. . . . Or, After Covid, Portugal.. .

I can’t remember how or when I twigged to an impending retirement move by a frequent reader/commenter, here. But it didn’t take long for that move, in all its complexities and joys and losses and…

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Art for Matrons? You’ll Be Surprised! (Women are Malleable and Art is Where We Find It)

Art for Matrons? You’ll Be Surprised! (Women are Malleable and Art is Where We Find It)

 In my ongoing attention (see previous post) to the “random abundance” which Oregon writer Kim Stafford (in his book The Muses Among Us) is the matrix out of which “Coherence is born,” I pulled Paul…

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Home and Thinking about Clever Cartoons and How To Draw Horses

Home and Thinking about Clever Cartoons and How To Draw Horses

I’m settling happily back in, chez nous, but I’m holding off a bit on blogpost-writing because of both my current familiarity with the wee hours (thank you, jet lag!) and a determination to keep “the…

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