As a woman on the far side of fifty, you’d think I’d have slayed my demons long ago. And, yes, in all due modesty, I’ve challenged and overcome some pretty formidable shortcomings. I now exercise regularly, I’ve trained myself to forego those tempting bags of delightfully crunchy corn chips, and I’ve even learned to say [...]
I’ve been reading a number of blog posts about making and succeeding with New Year’s resolutions. In fact, the topic is all over the Internet as well as on TV, in magazines, and on the radio. December may be all about “the jolly” but January seems to be all about knuckling down and getting serious: [...]
In my last post I mentioned I wanted to explore the topic of achieving balance in several areas of our lives. The first days of January are the perfect time to broach this subject as many of us feel out of sorts after the excesses of the holidays. We may have eaten too much, we’ve [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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