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Suzanne Venker, co-author of Women Who Win At Love  recently appeared on the Tucker Carlson Show . She was there to talk about her book and the trials and tribulations of single women looking for a new love.   She is … [Read more...] about Women Are God’s Incredible Creation

Gert Boyle, CEO of Columbia Sportswear has passed. I learned about this amazing woman many years ago,  and I feel a great loss.  She was tough, independent, fearless, and inspiring, the ultimate role model for all older feisty women who knew what they wanted to achieve in spite of "age" and other would-be deterrents and went ahead and did it, often in unorthodox  ways. Read … [Read more...] about Gert Boyle, R.I.P.

I don’t know about you but sleeping through the night is something I’ve struggled with most of my adult life. I can fall asleep easily, I just don’t stay asleep and wake numerous times during the night. I’m always on the lookout to find ways to help with getting quality sleep. The one thing I’ve never done is resort to prescription medication and I … [Read more...] about Sleep: A Necessary Evil?

  In a local "Dear Aunt Mabel" advice column, a woman signed herself "Upset" and complained about having been given a senior discount without her requesting it. She wrote in part, "Aunt Mabel, I have more than 10 years before I turn 65. By today's standards, this is far from old. This has caused me considerable embarrassment. . . I think these employees should be … [Read more...] about Senior Discounts — Yes, No, or Maybe?

Shift happens. Family and friends move away or pass on. Jobs change by our design or someone else’s. Children are born and the family expands, as does its needs. The weather, on planet and off, brings about gradual or immediate changes. The list of minor and major shifts is endless because everything changes, despite our best efforts at times to keep or make things go the way … [Read more...] about Impermanence Is Here to Stay

Anyone who knows me will tell you I am not a hat person. I love hats but I love them on other people. When my Dad passed away in 1988, my stepmother Beatrice insisted that we wear not only hats, but big blue hats with drooping veils. I felt mild resentment at that, but went along with her because we had just begun a new relationship. One nothing like the one we started back … [Read more...] about A Love Note For Bea

You know how our taste buds mature along with our bodies and minds? It’s the same for joy, isn’t it? If you were to make a quick mental list of what brought you joy, starting with the earliest age you can remember, you’d easily see how this shifted over time, some of that shift being a result of your age and some a result of your life experience. On your brings-me-joy list, … [Read more...] about Where Is Your Joy?

We live in such a convenience-based society and I like to refer to many conveniences as “first world problems”. Over the weekend our high-tech Samsung washing machine, that just about makes coffee,  had a mechanical failure. My immediate remedy was to go to YouTube for a fix. Of course, I found many people who had the same issue and offered their solution to unplug the … [Read more...] about Things We Take For Granted