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.
As a single woman, what are your thoughts about dating deal-breakers after 50? Just to be clear on what a deal-breaker actually is…. They are qualities a man has that you CAN’T TOLERATE in your life or they are qualities a man MUST HAVE in order to date you, such as the same religion or […]

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 National Friendship Day, a day to tell your friends how much you treasure their gift of friendship. It is a day to look into the mirror and think about the role you play in the friendship. Are you allowing time for your friends? Are you creative with your gestures? Take this opportunity to address […]

Have you tried fancy creams, lotions, daytime and nighttime moisturizers, but most of them come up short? This problem may come from the quality of skincare topicals – some of them treat symptoms of an impaired skin barrier only on limited problem areas and actually leave the source of skin issues untouched. Today, we will […]

Contributor Andrea Pflaumer talks about how fashion helps us stay visible. Enjoy, darling. Over the last 18 months, just about everyone got a glimpse of what many older women experience on a daily basis: invisibility. Some people might assume that since the effects of aging occur gradually and over time, older women just “get used […]
