Midlife Cabernet Quotes

“In hindsight, I was totally unprepared for the truth. I will live without my children much longer than I lived with them. That’s a difficult reality after submerging twenty years of my life into the responsibilities, joys, and frustrations of raising kids.”
― Elaine Ambrose, Midlife Cabernet: Life, Love & Laughter after Fifty

“The Book of Ecclesiastes in the Holy Bible was written more than two thousand years ago, just before I was born. Chapter III contains the famous verses about there being a time, a season, and a purpose for everything. Who needs modern self-help books and expensive therapy when this astute advice explains it all?”
― Elaine Ambrose, Midlife Cabernet: Life, Love & Laughter after Fifty

“It’s important for food to be labeled because I should know if the product I’m buying to feed my family contains Polysorbate 60—a chemically-derived emulsifier in Cool Whip that has been linked to organ toxicity, diarrhea, and tumors in laboratory rats. The label also informs me that this fluffy, sweet concoction that looks so appealing in a Jell-O parfait also has synthetic wax, hydrogenated oils, and high fructose corn syrup. I should just eat poison instead.”
― Elaine Ambrose, Midlife Cabernet: Life, Love & Laughter after Fifty

“life is fragile and getting older is a privilege denied to many others.”
― Elaine Ambrose, Midlife Cabernet: Life, Love & Laughter after Fifty

“music—Sarah Brightman, Il Divo, Latin Jazz, Bette Midler, and a collection of movie tunes. Driving through the Idaho mountains while listening to the theme song from Out of Africa can be”
― Elaine Ambrose, Midlife Cabernet: Life, Love & Laughter after Fifty

“Accepting my aging body allows me to tolerate sporadic episodes of humiliation and glorious crescendos of joy. In other words, a typical song in the life of a middle-aged woman. After all these years, I’ve learned to accept the fact that if I dare to venture into public, somehow I will embarrass myself.”
― Elaine Ambrose, Midlife Cabernet: Life, Love & Laughter after Fifty

“Instead of sashaying down the aisle to wedding bliss, I detoured over to Malfunction Junction.”
― Elaine Ambrose, Midlife Cabernet: Life, Love & Laughter after Fifty