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Like many women in their late 60s, I’d enjoyed a varied career and also raised four children and a foster son, mostly as a single parent. In 2000, at 62, I’d gone off to join the Peace Corps in Honduras, and, after returning to the States, for the first time, became a Spanish interpreter and freelance writer, while also looking after my mother in her last years. Then, in … [Read more...] about Seizing On Life’s Unexpected Opportunities: My Sudan Journey

A friend in her 60s who has kept her trademark long blonde hair joined me for breakfast looking twenty years younger in a hip maxi dress and shell jewellery after her daily two hour yoga session and swapped notes on her latest travels to exotic destinations. Later that day another friend in her 70s met me for lunch looking customarily chic with her signature … [Read more...] about Beautiful at Any Age

I am often amazed and amused by the various attitudes many have regarding getting ‘old’. Some refuse to discuss the subject while to others age is a fact of life and they don’t fret about it. Each of us is a certain age; we can’t do a thing about the truth. We can joke about it, lie about it or be realistic about it.

Some spend most of their years dreading ‘old age’. … [Read more...] about Dreading ‘Old Age’

You’ve probably heard expressions like “60 is the new 40.”  The truth is actually that anyone can be 68 going on 50. All you need is a motivational mindset. Then you, too, can start counting the calendar backwards at each birthday. 

Beyond good diet and exercise – which are critical for anyone at any age – getting motivated is the key to aging well.  Here are five … [Read more...] about Five Motivational Ways to Age Backwards

When it comes to finances, ignorance is not bliss. What you aren’t aware of and don't take advantage of often leaves you as the one being taken advantage of. You have a choice: you can either believe  that what you planned for, purchased  and put in place for your financial future years ago, is still in your  financial best interest today, or you can  acknowledge and explore … [Read more...] about What You Don’t Know Can And Does Cost You And Your Family Money

Carolyn Myss once said that when we tell someone about our emotional wounds, we’ve let them know how the relationship will be manipulated. This “information” also reveals how we live. A friend recently experienced a catharsis that took her through and beyond old wounds, wounds that caused her to armor herself since childhood, without really realizing to what degree this … [Read more...] about Are You Emotionally Wounded?

The beginning of a new year gives me the same feeling as Spring; it is a time for ‘new beginnings’. First of all, I thank God for giving me the beginning of a new year, then I try to loosely organize the things I would like to accomplish within that year, or whatever time I have. I might not finish all of the ‘list’ but this will give me something to work toward, a … [Read more...] about New Beginnings

I suspect that the final, definitive answer for the Newtown tragedy will not be forthcoming. The only person who might have provided some insight was the mother. Unfortunately, she was the first one who was killed. So what I will be proposing is pure conjecture, based not on fact, but on my understanding of what has been reported about the gunman.

Let me start with … [Read more...] about My Take on Newtown

 (And my favorite winter, “Keep your legs warmer at night trick!”)

Are you one of those that can predict the weather based on how your leg or other muscles feel? Can you tell all of us if there is a storm coming because your joints tell you first? Does it take a lot longer than you’d like to admit to get up and moving because everything is so stiff? If so, this … [Read more...] about How to Beat Stiff and Cold Leg Muscles During the Winter Months

My brother-in-law has been naging me to write a “put old on hold” book for guys and my usual response is, “I don’t understand the male psyche well enough to do that” to which he responds, “I don’t understand the male psyche either.” So I’m thinking, what do you want from me? 

Really, guys don’t need a book to figure out how to put old on hold. They just need an … [Read more...] about Guys, Listen Up: Mother Is Speaking!