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A Nod to Quarterlife Crisis

People searching the term“quarterlife crisis” started finding this blog. While not quantified in medical journals, enough 20-somethings experience something akin to a midlife crisis for the term to have gained traction. Now comes the movie, Frances Ha, which is, as one film critic described it, “a refreshingly contemporary film, exploring... Read more →

The Tao of Quarterlife Crisis

I discovered the Personal Tao blog a few years ago while researching "midlife crisis." He demonstrated great insight into the deeper meaning of midlife crisis in his writings. In fact, this blog sends him a fair amount of traffic, for which I'm glad. I visited his blog today and discovered... Read more →

How a Hurricane Helped This Helicopter Parent

As the nation knows by now, Hurricane Ike packed a wallop on Houston and the surrounding area. We've been without power for 11 days. Workers in downtown Houston just returned yesterday. I'm surprised that none of my colleagues suffered any symptoms from electronic withdrawal, myself included. This is the first... Read more →

Burned Out On Boomerang Kids

I've encouraged my midlife friends and empty nesters to visit LifeTwo.com, which, sadly, is no longer an active website. Wes Hein, founder, initiated the Blogging Boomer Carnival of which I was an original member. My day job and my own blogging demands took over, so I had to curtail my... Read more →

How to Survive Your 20-Something's Midlife Crisis

Mid-life crisis, quarterlife crisis, all around angst. I want to stop the world and get off. I want to run away from home. But I know that this knee-jerk reaction is a subconscious fear that I can't handle "it". The "it" in this post is a child's 20-something, quarter-something, WTF-not... Read more →

Quarterlife Crisis: The New Mid-life Crisis

Upon graduation from college, a 20-something received a book called Quarterlife Crisis: The Unique Challenges of Life in Your Twenties. As with many gift books, it sat on a shelf gathering dust. Fast forward five years, and the title resonates within the drone of one's seemingly mundane life. If you're... Read more →