Aging & Appearance

To the Mystery Shopper Who Paid it Forward and Made a Fashion Statement

It’s the Holy Grail for women. Finding clothes that flatter your body is a quest that never ends. Short-waisted, long-waisted, big bust, small bust. We’ve all got issues. We get older and the issues just evolve. Or more accurately, expand. The years add pounds and inches exponentially. And it doesn’t help that I had two mastectomies […]

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My Husband Drove his Car Over My Foot….and here are 10 GOOD things about it

1. It makes great blog fodder. 2. It was an accident. I thought I should probably mention that. In today’s world, you never know. 3. There were witnesses. We were with another couple (who both escaped injury.) 4. It’s not life threatening; I don’t need surgery but potentially could score a handicap parking pass. […]

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Life@50+ Top 10 List

Welcome to AARP. By welcome I don’t mean getting the card. I’ve had mine for a while. (okay, a LONG while.) By welcome I mean attending my first AARP event, Life@50+. They had me at hello. Actually they had me even before Hello, as soon as I walked in the door of the […]

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Beach Babes in Magic City

Once upon a time, long long ago, and far away, there lived 6 girls in a place called Magic City. Hold on; I just need to interrupt a second. This sounds like a fairy tale but it’s true; so for the sake of accuracy, it wasn’t really called Magic City. But I didn’t make that up. […]

Madonna, Reinvention and Revolution

Madonna turned 55 this week. I have to believe she’s thinking to herself: How did that happen? That’s what I’m thinking about my birthday which is also coming up this week; just a few days (and a few years!) after hers. It gets harder to wrap your head around the number the bigger it gets. […]

You Gotta Have Girlfriends

I’ve always felt lucky to be a woman of our particular generation. We came along at the perfect time to be women – to witness the flourishing of the women’s movement, and to benefit from it personally. The women who led the feminist movement had enormous impact and influence on all our lives. So surely […]