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.
A New Lifestyle with Widowhood As a woman over 50, when you find yourself alone and adjusting to a new and unwanted lifestyle, it can be a traumatic experience. Whether your great loss is due to a divorce or widowhood, it is hard to transition from coupledom to singlehood. We all face adversity in this […]
Every Woman Needs a Space of Her Own Darling, you deserve to have a space of your own. Every woman has private thoughts that swirl through her mind. I use the word swirl because most thoughts last but minutes or seconds. Thoughts can eventually turn into wonderful happenings. They are ideas and snapshots of your […]
How do you love someone when it’s tough to do so? I thought long and hard about how to answer. In truth, we meet people in life who rub us the wrong way. Most incidents are easily resolved, some are never resolved, and then there are our loved ones—even when it is a challenge. Introduction […]
This story is about positivity and negativity and how we can lead our grands to choose the glass-half-full mentality. Our personality type is in our DNA and we pass this on to our children and grands. When I say DNA, I am not specifically referring to our genetic code in the scientific sense. What I […]
*Affiliate disclosure. Red-y to embrace red lipstick after 50? Some say people our age should eschew red lipstick but I say women over 50 should eschew being told what to do! Guidelines are fine but rules are meant to be broken, darlings! When it comes to selecting the right red lipstick shade that suits you, […]