Kitchen Tables (& Other Midlife Musings) Book

	Kitchen Tables	1
	Women's Friendships	4
	Moving	6
	History in the Recipe Box	8
	The Chicken Soup Myth	10
	Leftovers	12
	Labor Day	15
	Second Parenthood	16
	Old Enough to Know Better	18
	Boyfriends and Girlfriends	21
	Staying Married	23
	The Fiftieth Birthday	25
	Croning Ceremonies: The Coming of Age	28
	Back to School	31
	Girl Scout Cookies	33
	How We See Ourselves	35
	Cars	38
	It's the Journey That Counts	40
	Airline Travel	43
	Names	45
	Bad Hair Day	48
	Shoes	51
	Front Flies and Other Impedimenta, or, What Do Women Want?	53
	In Praise of Older Women	56
	Regrets	59
	Just Say No	61
	Swimming at Dawn	63
	A Room of One's Own	65
	Halloween	68
	The Ballad of the Red Earrings	71
	Weight-Bearing Activity	73
	Set in My Ways	76
	Am I Old Yet?	78
	Keep on Dancin'	81
	The Old Glass Pitcher	83
	Smokey, the Retired Cat	86
	Someone to Wonder Where You Are	89
	Letters	91
	How to Know Whether You Are an Oldie	94
	The New Smoking Etiquette	97
	Garage Sales	100
	Oldie on Campus	102
	Eccentricity	105
	A House by the Side of the Road	108
	Sleep Patterns	111
	Over the Hill at Sixty-Two	113
	Becoming Curmudgeonly	115
	Older Than Sixty-Five	117
	I'm Not Going	119
	Being American	121
	One-Hour Photos	124
	Seize the Day	126
	Seven Deadly Sins	128
	Mixed Emotions	130
	I Saw an Owl Today	132
	The Journey Continues	134