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Midlife Madness
Midlife hit me over the head with a hammer and then dropped kicked me into another universe. One minute I was boogying along, full speed ahead, the next I was laying flat out…
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Zen and the Art of Aging
I was talking to a friend the other day. Like most of us she has way more problems in her life than she’d like to have, frankly more than her share. But,…
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Getting it Together after Fifty
I think we pretty much all are in agreement by the time we reach fifty and sixty: Life is not a simple thing! In fact, in many ways, it just becomes more complex…
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ARE YOU STILL PRETENDING TO BE A YOUNGER VERSION OF YOURSELF?
Are you pretending to be a younger version of you? I know that’s a really loaded question! But, an important one. We live in a youth obsessed culture. We are enamored with being…
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Paula Deen, Aunt Bee and Motherhood
Paula Deen fell under scrutiny recently when it was revealed that she is diabetic. Her worst critics are her peers, the fifty something women who cluck at her bad behavior and respond in…
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Finding Security at any Age
If there’s one thing I’ve learned about life in the past sixty years it’s that the ground is always shifting beneath my feet. Even when I think nothing is changing, it is. It may…