How to Express Gratitude to Your Partner

I have often wondered why some of us are more grateful than others. Through reading the works of scholars, I have learned that gratitude is part nature and part nurture. Two identical twins with identical DNA have identical feelings about gratitude. Fraternal twins have a 50% chance of feeling the same emotion. I decided to […]

Passages After 50, Relationships

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Weekend Musings: Memorial Day, Mentoring, Chef AJ & More

Happy Memorial Day Weekend, My Darlings! I hope you all have perfect plans for your Memorial Day weekend, my darlings. If you’re spending it with family or friends, let us all give thanks and remembrance to the men and women who died serving our country. We owe them a great debt of gratitude. If you […]

Advice, Podcast

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3 Essential Pieces of Advice For Sons and Daughters

Reflecting While Heading Home I want to talk about three important pieces of advice for our sons and daughters. This Saturday morning, my ultimate concierge, my pooch America and I are leaving Palm Springs, California for my beautiful Chicago. Home is where my heart lies. We have spent most of the winter at our California […]

Passages After 50, Relationships

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Baking Bread

Baking—Loaves of Love for Me and for Future Generations

This is a story dear to my heart about my adventures in a new world that brought me back to an old world–a world of my ancestors and heritage. I really believe that it is important to stretch ourselves, to dare to discover who we are in the most positive terms and then to let […]

Passages After 50

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Barbara Becker Holstein

As Moms and Grandmas We Spend a Great Deal Time Making Others Feel Cozy – Don’t Stop!

Guest post by Dr. Barbara Becker Holstein I have so many memories of my mother making my life cozy. Some of her efforts happened when I was sick: I was allowed to spend the day in my parent’s double bed rather than my bed; my mother got out all her jewelry and we played jewelry […]

Relationships

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