What you will have to fight. Letter to my daughter on the eve of her 13th birthday Dear Lila, You need to know some things that I have never told you before. First, you need to know that being a female is the most glorious privilege. …

I was grumpy! I had been passed over on several jobs that “should have been” mine. My teens were texting instead of talking. My husband’s head was in his work. My father was dying. Nothing too out of the ordinary for a middle aged woman. I also just had eye…

Being your own best friend means celebrating yourself more than once a year! My Dad always told me you have to be your own best friend! At the time he was trying to give me advice on eating alone at lunch during middle school. …

Ten things to do before you start a project! What do you appreciate about the other person? Do you know that the biggest need in humans is to be appreciated and seen? If you start from a place of appreciation, lines of communication will be open. What is your biggest…

Real women have gray hair and are sexy too. Maybe you should try it? Let me start by saying that I dyed my hair for thirty years. A true Generation Xer. I was the queen of the highlights. But like so many women in the spring of 2020, I could…

This realistic practical approach helped me find the partner of my dreams. I’ve been happily married for nineteen years. I dated lots of people before I got hitched. So many people ask me how I determined that my husband was the one. So many singles create long preference lists based…

Get a new dream! There is nothing more important than going for your biggest dreams to keep you thriving at any age but especially after fifty. Why do I know this? Because I had a dream too. A big one. In 1989 I declared that I wanted to be an…

These tiny reminders might make your parenting days go better. Let your children know each day how wonderful they are! Especially if they are teenagers.( Teenagers are under a constant strain with today’s social media telling them that they aren’t good enough.) It doesn’t need to be a big complement…

Saying no to vampires, ex lovers, and isolation will set you back on the right path! We all get discouraged! Where we can’t see what we want or who we want or where we want to go. Discouragement is always temporary! Think about it. …