As many of you may know, I’m on vacation. However, I haven’t shared where I am–I didn’t want to make anyone out there jealous, but here goes…
My husband and I spent this past week on the beautiful island of Kauai. Right now, as I type this, I can hear the waves lapping the shore in [...]
Yes, in all due modesty, women over fifty rule. And not just with our formidable experience, smarts, and menopausal zest. We rule in a number of ways–not the least of which is our physical endurance… okay, well, kinda.
For those of you who are frequent readers, you may recall that I’m currently on vacation. As one [...]
As women who’ve sailed past our fiftieth birthdays, we’ve already learned a number of life lessons. We know that life isn’t always easy, you don’t always get what you want, and larger disappointments can seem like unbearable hardships if you look at them that way. On the other hand, it is from just these types [...]
In her book about women’s second adulthood, Inventing the Rest of Our Lives, Suzanne Braun Levine provides us with some exiting data concerning the aging brain. Dr. Francine Benes, professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, has discovered that there is a growth spurt that takes place in the human brain around the age of [...]
Yes, for women over fifty, or, for that matter, most anyone of any age, modern travel isn’t easy. I just returned from a week’s trip to the heartland visiting my relatives and, although I had a wonderful time, the going wasn’t easy.
To start, I awoke at 3:45 a.m. to give myself enough time to shower [...]
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