
“A daughter is an extension of her mother and also a woman unto herself” ~Honey You love one another…yet one of you is often saying the wrong thing! Does that sound familiar, dear readers? I have toiled over the years to improve my communication skills with my daughters because they are attuned to everything I […]

I know my title sounds a bit dismal, and, maybe even unappreciative. Nothing could be further from the truth. It is just hard for me to leave “home.” I am so content living in my beautiful Chicago, in my apartment in the sky, with my husband, Shelly, and my delicious pooch, Orchid. I am a homebody, […]

Women tell me all the time how amazed they are by a girlfriend who gets a zillion dates while they are struggling to get one date with a good man. What are the secrets to women’s dating success? What are these women over 50 doing right that you could be doing? Well here are three tips to […]

My life has been blessed with remarkable role models. And I was lucky to have experience with blended families and step-grandparenting early on. One of the most remarkable and inspiriting was my step-grandmother. She was my Tinker Bell, complete with fairy dust that made me want to follow in her footsteps. Ever since […]

I have been thinking back to the time I learned a valuable lesson: that positive things can flow from negative events. In this case, it was the pain of an ankle so shattered it had to be screwed back together and a dear friendship that wasn’t nearly as broken as I had thought it to […]