My mother must have been in her sixties when she gathered my younger sister and me in the dining room and sat us down.
There on the oak table that was purchased with a reimbursement check for my mother's stolen mink coat sat piles of my …
Are You The Same Person You Were As A Child?
For my seventy-fifth birthday, my younger sister presented me with one of the best birthday gifts I've ever received. She'd spent hours going through a stack of 8-millimeter home movies that had been filmed by our father in the …
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Grandparent Encouragement Officer
Are you a grandparent who will spend time with your grandchildren, particularly around the holidays? If not, how will you share and engage with your grandchildren from a distance at any time of year?
Sleeping Pills: Bad News for Women
Prescribed sleeping pills should be taken for no more than two to three weeks. Yet studies show that 14% of women report taking a sleeping pill every night. As we know, once women and men (though particularly women) become …
“AGING SIDEWAYS”
Did you know that sometime between 2030 and 2035 it will be the first time in American history that more people will be 65+ than people 18 years and younger?
Crazy!
Your Pelvic Floor
If you’re like me, your yoga instructor or physical therapist has said something about tightening your pelvic floor. And if you’re like me, you weren’t exactly sure where your pelvic floor resides –somewhere down there -- or …
When A Front Garden Is As Good As A Front Porch
Our house built in 1864 had a front porch but at some point -- maybe in the 1940s -- the owners decided to enclose it as part of the living room. I'm happy about the extra space surrounded by windows and the two additional steam …
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The Messy Middle
Are you a woman in your mid-life? Are you dealing for the first time with feeling invisible? Are you trying to beat the clock of aging? Do you look toward the experiences and wisdom of older women to help show the way? Join Ann Douglas, author of …
Women’s Friendships As We Age
If you ask me the topic that runs through almost every episode of my podcast, "Older Women and Friends," it would be friendships. It doesn't seem to matter whether the intended subject of an interview is a group called …
Women Who Dance Together Stay Together
It's been a while since I've blogged. Maybe it's the warm, sultry weather here in Mexico or the sweet sound of songbirds, or the seemingly choreographed dance of the hummingbirds furiously flapping their wings, diving at and with …
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Hey, I’m Old. There’s Nothing Wrong With That
Dear family and friends, we are gathered here today to honor and celebrate our losses big and small, and to welcome into the fold the changes those losses have inspired.
I know, dear ones. It sounds a …
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First It Was “Family Feud.” Now It’s “The Voice.”
If you've been reading my blog--I sure hope you have--you know that I realized that I'd hit bottom during the Pandemic when I started watching "Family Feud." Every day. Sometimes more than once because reruns can always be found. …
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