Melinda Blau

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Reconnecting to Share Exciting News About the Trauma of My Last 5 Months

January 21, 2025 by Melinda Blau

I want to think that you notice when I’ve been away for a while. In the past, it was because I was posting on Medium or because I was busy working on my  book.  Now it is because I have not been posting anywhere or writing anything. Some of you know I was bitten by […]

When I’m an Old Lady…A Reflection on Aging in the Wake of my 78th Birthday

December 10, 2021 by Melinda Blau

The following rumination, published first on Medium, was inspired by “my old ladies”… …women 20 or 25 years older whom I’ve befriended and gotten to know since I was 50. I now am old enough to be someone else’s “old lady.” Still, I continue to seek out “good” much-older women — though I’ve had to […]

Roof Days With Marge

September 4, 2021 by Melinda Blau

The Blessing of a 103-year-old Friend   Roof Days with Marge shamelessly echoes Tuesdays with Morrie, the 2007 bestseller by Mitch Albom, about “an old man, a young man, and life greatest’s lessons.”  This post is about an old woman and a somewhat-less-old woman, and life’s most challenging passage!  #successful aging Marge will be 104 in […]

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