When the Flames Go Up
av Magda Pecsenye and Doug French
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Episode 71: Planning ahead
Episode 71: Planning ahead
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After we divorced, we started a blog about co-parenting to learn how to work together until our kids were grown. And now that they are, and the world is so busy disrupting and disavowing what we thought we were working for, we're looking to our community to help us all keep up.
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- Episode 71: Planning ahead · 33 minAfter a few weeks off, we’re back behind the mics to catch up and pitch topics for some upcoming episodes. It’s been a busy time, and we’ve had a lot of opportunity to talk with…
- Episode 70: Where's the Gray Mafia? · 32 minWe all knew of the American Association of Retired Persons when we were kids, right? It was that super powerful interest group that got senior citizens all those cool discounts…
- Episode 69: Navigating college when the fog gets thick · 56 minKimberly Shepherd coaches young adults (and their parents) that college is just one of many paths for a high school graduate to take. And that path often seems impassable—whether…
- Episode 68: Keeping up with culture · 39 minTwo extraordinary things happened on Sunday: 1) Kendrick Lamar livened up a noncompetitive Super Bowl with a halftime show that people will discuss for years to come; and 2) Doug…
- Episode 67: Healthy aging takes guts. Literally. · 1 t 7 minAfter several years of suffering her own gastric distress, Maya Gangadharan consulted the Nutritional Therapy Association and learned a ton about how so much of our bodily…
- Episode 66: What is Meta for? · 35 minNow that Mark Zuckerberg thinks fact-checking is overrated—a decision described as both desperate and potentially disastrous—you might find yourself in a quandary over whether to…
- A collective exhale · 27 minLast week, the family endured a big scare after our son texted us the picture below with the caption, “something very, very bad has just happened.” He had hit some black ice on…
- Republicans like Bryan McGrath are sick of this crap, too. · 1 t 9 minBryan McGrath describes himself as “a Russell Kirk, Edmund Burke, William F. Buckley conservative” who has written his blog, The Conservative Wahoo, since 2008. After 21 years in…
- How broken are we? · 49 minAs Kathryn Hahn said recently, “the universe doesn’t give us anything that we can’t handle, but JESUS CHRIST.” There’s lots of emotion to sift through as the asbestos settles on…
- Caring for parents in Tokyo means bridging a huge cultural gulf. · 1 t 5 minAya Yasukawa-Dudzinski is a “third culture kid,” a native Japanese who has spent almost all of her life in America. She has a full-time job and two tween daughters here, and her…
- Reunions = high school + time · 48 minOver the weekend, Magda got the biggest glimpse of her new husband’s life before they knew each other when they attended his high school reunion. They didn’t know which…
- Balancing the opportunities of a new life amid the chaos of your old one. · 1 t 10 minNow that her daughters are adults, Carlotta Stankiewicz thinks a lot about how she and her sister will take care of their parents, who split up decades ago and live two time…
- He thinks, she thinks · 46 minWe came up with the idea for this podcast topic after gauging the different reactions from men and women about the vice presidential debate last week. After a weekend of…
- How to start HRT for menopause (even in Florida) · 1 t 23 minIf you’re considering hormone replacement therapy (HRT) to treat your menopause, this is the reference for you. Dr. MaryBeth Lewis-Boardman stopped delivering babies in 2021 in…
- Are you happy now? · 52 minWhat is happiness to a middle-aged person? Does it still feel like a realistic goal? Or have we lived through too much to aspire to anything more than contentment? Or…
- At least there was a bus. · 47 minWe’re back! And there’s a lot to catch up on since Season 1 ended a few weeks back. We got the college drop-off experience we always wanted. We traveled. We saw family. We got…
- How's it hanging? · 46 minDoes just staying alive seem more difficult to you? This is the question on our minds as we end Season 1 and break for the rest of the summer. Because when you reach your 50s…
- Sarah Lyman Kravits adapted to a decade of grief by yielding to its unpredictability · 1 t 6 minSarah Lyman Kravits appreciates when people refer to Elisabeth Kübler-Ross’s five stages of grief, even though she knows they’re not based in reality. And she doesn’t feel all…
- Episode 53: As we live more with our finality, celebrity deaths hit different · 51 minIt’s hard to keep up with the swift pace of death, which claims 11 people every second. When we recorded this, we were still processing the departures of Shannen Doherty, Shelley…
- Episode 52: Carolyn Sklar couldn't find a children's book about mastectomies, so she wrote one. · 1 t 4 minAfter Carolyn Sklar’s grandmother (and namesake) died of breast cancer in her 50s, the family learned that its women carry the BRCA 2 gene. Rather than risk cancer, Carolyn opted…
