Now that Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year’s are behind us, retailers are blanketing the shopping universe with cut-out hearts, plush toy bears, and inedible sugar treats emblazoned with “Be My Baby,” designed to get us opening our wallets again for Valentine’s Day. Every Baby Boomer hubby knows that this is the perfect time to buy […]
You Asked! Boomer Beauty, Made Simple. No. 1
At home one day, organizing photographs into albums (last done, 2007), I came across a wedding photo of Hubs and me in the church. Just for fun, I showed it to a girlfriend the next day and she blurted out, “Wow, you were beautiful.” Thank you. And ouch. She must have seen my tiny wince […]
Middle Age. Sometimes All You Can Do is Laugh
With Baby Boomers making up a significant percentage of the national population and now reaching their 60s and beyond, much has been written about the joys and pains of growing older. On one hand, we tend to be more at peace with ourselves and our lives. Whether that comes from cumulative decades of meditation […]
Casual Job, Casual Life, Boring Wardrobe? Fast Fixes That’ll Step Up Your Game
One of the benefits of living in a small town is the casual dress code. You can go to work, take in a Zumba class on the way home, and go to dinner at almost any restaurant in yoga pants or jeans and a t-shirt. Excluding proprietary uniforms for Oil Can Henry’s or the wait […]
He’s 84? Yeah, I’m on His Christmas List
Enjoying a recent happy hour with a girlfriend, when she grinned and pointed across the room to a man she said was smiling at me. The first table I saw was occupied by four young 30-somethings, and as I was flashing them my brightest I-know-I-could-be-your-mother-but-I’m-not, she burst out laughing. “No,” she said, “It’s the man […]
Mom for the Holidays. A Truly Joyful Read!
“If You’re a Fly on the Wall in My House in December” by Marcia Kester Doyle If you’re a fly on the wall in my house in December, you’ll get quite dizzy with our frenzied holiday preparations. You might even land in my spiked eggnog, so don’t believe everything you overhear in […]
“I Look Great for 64. But I’m 58.” What You Might be Doing Wrong (Part 1)
A girlfriend called me last weekend, all stressed out because she’d gotten out of bed that morning, and when she looked in the mirror, she was stunned to see an “old lady” looking back at her. “How the hell did this happen?” she wailed. “I thought I looked pretty good. But if I saw me […]
7 Dumb Conversations Most Happily Married Couples Don’t Have
Hubs and I went to dinner recently at a beautiful hotel on the river, and they sat us next to a younger couple that were obviously having a little tiff. They were trying to remain inconspicuous, speaking in tense, hushed voices, but it was clear to anyone nearby that whatever their original intentions were, the […]
Want to Amp Up Your Sex Life? Take Your Vagina to the Gym
At a housewarming party for a close friend last weekend, and while I was getting a glass of red at the wine bar, I met a woman in her 60s who introduced herself as a sex therapist. My writer brain instantly obliterated eighteen years of upbringing on the do’s and don’ts of social pleasantries (“Nice […]
Hubs Saw a Spider. Proof That Men Can, in fact, Scream Like a Girl
Whenever I tell someone I lived in Hawaii for several years, they invariably ask what I miss about it. They assume (rightfully so) that the never-ending sunshine, white sandy beaches, warm turquoise oceans, and breathtaking plumeria growing outside your bedroom window would be aptly named “Paradise,” and no one in their right mind wouldn’t want […]
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