kate meyers
Diary of a 50-Year-Old Bride, Part 1

Divorce Dialogues: 'I Wasn't Married to a Horrible Person; I Just Wasn't Happy'
The horrible thing about divorce, no matter if it's right or wrong or if you're doing the right thing, is: It's physically painful. My body just hurt.

Divorce Dialogues: 'Try to Have a Civil Relationship with Your Ex'
Jennifer O. is an ophthalmologist in Pennsylvania. She's twice-divorced and has been happily married for the last 14 years. She and her second husband divorced when her oldest son was 6 months old. Her son's now 18, and she also has a 12-year-old. Here's her take on her long journey.
How a 10K Brought Me and My Teen Closer Together
I walked a 10K race in town with my daughter on Monday. We talked, we observed, we felt the endorphin pleasure of working our bodies. I think it's while spending time without expectation that good things come.
Kid's Lesson: Keep Going and Fly
Kids have so much to teach us if we can just open our adult eyes and our overly frenetic brains and take it in. Recently, I learned some important life lessons from a little boy I met in Alabama while visiting my boyfriend.
Life Lessons from Yoga
I have been attending Bikram yoga classes for nine years. Bikram (90 minutes, 26 poses in a 105-degree room) is so strenuous and demands so much focus that I stop thinking about anything else. The result: I am treated to a vacation from my head.
The Government Needs Mom Clean-Up Skills!
When your kid breaks the fish tank, you don't first assign the blame or figure out the punishment -- you clean it up. The government has clearly screwed the pooch on this one, and pressuring BP is clearly not working.










