When life gives us lemons, we just have to make ourselves some sweet lemonade. Here you’ll find our musings, pearls of wisdom, and personal stories to guide you through life’s passages. Explore how to embrace your beauty with style, discover new adventures, navigate the nuances of relationships, pull back the curtain to deal with life changes, and resonate with the reflections of other women.
Happy Weekend, everyone! I hope the first week of August treated you well. I know it’s still been very hot in a lot of places, but I hope you are staying cool. With August here and September around the corner, fall will soon be on the horizon. I’m sure your grands are thinking about back-to-school […]

Is frankness between friends an important quality in a relationship? Each and every one of us daydream. That is how I write. My palette is a blank page of white paper. I put my fingers on my keyboard and often ask myself, “What can I share today?” The point being that over the past years […]

It’s officially the last week of July, and we will go into August with smiles on our faces and I’m sure our air conditioners will be at full blast! This week we had a full moon and of course, the start to the 2020 Tokyo Olympics which were postponed last year because of COVID-19. Though […]

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We are already at the end of July, isn’t that amazing, darling? Pretty soon it will be fall, but that doesn’t mean we should stop enjoying what’s left of summer. Speaking of enjoying summer, this past week my private Facebook group GRANDwomen with Moxie had its first meetup at the Chicago Botanic Gardens. What a wonderful […]
