Article sponsored by VSP Individual Vision Plans If you’re like most Americans over 50, you plan to work after retirement in some capacity. You may even be considering changing the way you work and going into business for yourself. Where once that would have been considered a dream job and beyond the realm of […]

In the English language, there are some things there are just not words for. Specifically English seems to lack words for feelings. Do you know what I mean, dear readers? The feeling you get when you hold your first grandchild. A word to describe how excitement begins in the pit of your belly and bubbles […]

  It is very hard to live with ‘mom guilt.’ My girls are adult women and you would think I could put aside my guilty feelings and revel in the joy of knowing they are lovely young women. So how can we deal with ‘mom guilt’ after 50? Joy comes from observing their actions. They are […]

For ten years I have never missed my dreaded CAT scan appointment. Four appointments a year for three years, then two appointments a year for two years and for the last five years, one appointment a year. That means I have not missed 21 appointments. And that is why I am a cancer survivor. Unfortunately, last Thursday, […]

Dear readers, do you have toxic women your life? My definition of a toxic woman is this… She is, first and foremost, unkind. She tries to makes you feel inferior. She tries to lord power over you. She is a manipulator and disregards your feelings. She is spiteful, vain and takes without giving. She is […]