Today, I feel fat. And flabby. And ugly.  Yes, I know, I’m teaching confidence, and positive body image, beauty is in who we are. Success on our terms. And, I really believe that. Truly, I do. But…

I feel like so many of us struggle, especially now with the world as it is, with things unsaid, things unshared, and things unacknowledged. We don’t talk about what is hurting us…

We all want to travel when we reach middle age, right? Vacation mode, 365? We dream of lounging at an outdoor cafe in Paris with a book and a glass of wine…

Eyeshadow for older women does not have to be complicated. But it does mean taking into account our aging, mature skin. And no 20-something beauty editor can know anything about that. But I have figured out what works, what doesn’t, and what old “rules” to throw out the window. If you want to know about […]

Menopause and autoimmune disease can often go hand in hand. Fatigue, invisible illness, chronic pain and many other symptoms get blamed (sometimes falsely) on midlife.

After 50, I felt… a little empty. I felt…over. I mean, I knew intellectually that wasn’t true, but it’s still how I felt. I wanted it all to mean something.

One of the big problems you may have when getting email might be that Google and the other “powers that be” try to think for us. Now, many times that’s helpful. They filter out scams, frauds, and trashy offensive emails. Well, at least most of the time, lol… But the other side of that is […]