Since I last blogged, the following has occurred in my immediate circle of family/friends: one misdiagnosis of a serious illness followed by an all-clear (mine), one real diagnosis of an even more serious illness (not mine but close enough to warrant on-going concerned caring and attention to a loved one), one stable and long-term source of funding ended necessitating the search for new source of income (several of us), one family wedding best left un-attended for reasons anyone who is part of an extended and dysfunctional family would understand (all of us) and finally, on a happier but still stressful note: first and/or early encounters with both the grown children’s’ significant others…But you know what I have to say to all this? What midlife crisis? “Time Magazine” started it and it’s been picked up by all the media. But my response is simple and to the point. When hasn’t our generation been in crisis? The real news here is how well I/we/all of us are doing, despite the many challenges life brings our way.