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Midlife Crisis in Great Apes

Consistent with the U-shape in human well-being, researchers discovered evidence for a midlife crisis in apes. Here is the abstract from the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences: Recently, economists and behavioral scientists have studied the pattern of human well-being over the lifespan. In dozens of countries, and for... Read more →

What Midlife Crisis?

Can't add much more than that! Read more →

Is Midlife Crisis Real?

More than one author/researcher questions whether a “midlife crisis” exists. I wrote about it a year ago here. Psychology Today outlined the Top 10 Myths about the midlife crisis, citing a number of books and studies corroborating that a midlife transition represents only one of several guideposts we experience in... Read more →

Say Hello to Midlife Crisis Hawaii

It's amazing the new blogs I'm finding now that I've put my mind to it. Here's Rodney in Hawaii reminiscing about life. Calling his blog Midlife Crisis Hawaii seems like an oxymoron. You live in Hawaii!! That's like me saying living on the Paradise Coast (Naples, Fla.) is hell. We've... Read more →

Enlightened Masculinity

The Good Men Project is a well-written, thought provoking digital magazine which challenges the cultural norms of what a "real man" should be. Read more →

Men Make a Personal Effort in 2013

On the Everyman blog, David suggests this new year to resolve simply to make a personal effort for your own good and the good of “the status of men.” Here are my two favorite suggestions he offers. Read more →

Why Are Middle Age Men So Crabby?

The Huffington Post published their Top Midlife posts for 2012, all but one of which was written by a man, Jed Diamond, who wrote the book on Irritable Male Syndrome , literally. While I may expand this blog to focus more on the transformational aspects of midlife for both men... Read more →

The Seven Year Itch

I haven’t been doing much original blogging, relying mainly on “reblogging” type posts. After 7 ½ years of blogging, I guess you could say I feel the itch to change things up, but every time I attempt to change the look and feel of this blog, I circle back around... Read more →