A nurse, a wife, a mom, a lover of all things creative and real. I write for catharsis, I write for enlightenment, I write for joy. I hope you find a bit of self love in it. I study myself in the... Read more >>

You know you are getting old when you feel the Occupational Health & Safety chaps have a point about the risks associated with open toe sandals. In one quick stumble in January, I managed to leave... Read more >>

I think I must have gotten lost along the way. All my life, I have been under the impression that after you turn fifty, life is about VACATIONS and RELAXATION. All I can say is “Did I make a... Read more >>

At sixty-five, humor is as much an essential as it always was. Humor is how we’ve coped. When your age peers die, your shock itself is funny, since we all know we will die. Your grief is not... Read more >>

I’ve recently had my forty-fifth birthday which has caused me to contemplate the next forty-five years. I appreciate my good fortune of having lived this long and in good health. I’d like... Read more >>

Why is it a daunting task to alter the perception of aging and beauty when we all do it? What if there were billboards of sexy fifty and sixty-year-olds doing sports or just close ups of their aged... Read more >>

I really hate the hairs I am suddenly sprouting on my chin. They bother me so much that I now carry tweezers with me at all times. The problem is, my eyesight has gotten so bad it's hard to pluck... Read more >>

Looking at the TV ads for fitness clubs, you might think they are all filled with twenty-something men and women jumping and running their way through each workout. While each club has its share of... Read more >>

Aging is a mystifying endless time of following your heart thru the passages of your life and is a searching enigma of trying to catch the glimpses of its journey. The moments of life's decisions... Read more >>

About 3 p.m. one Tuesday, we received a phone call informing us that my Aunt Polly, my late mom’s beloved baby sister, was in a hospital and not expected to live through the night. We... Read more >>