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.
Today, I’m sharing Saturday style with a vintage twist. My mother taught me — instead of buying many inexpensive things — to always invest in one good piece. That advice stuck with me. I do have some lovely items in my wardrobe, but you may be surprised to know that many of them I have […]
I was asked to answer four questions and write an essay for Chicago Woman Magazine after being chosen as one of Chicago’s 50 Fierce outstanding women over 50. I turned to my dictionary, hoping to find a positive definition. I could not put myself into the fierceness category. The dictionary definition read, “Having or displaying an […]
I want to talk about style, do you? Seriously, I’d love to know at this stage in our lives how important style is to you? For me, style is everything in the sense that it represents how I live, what I do, how I treat others, and much more. I am not speaking just of […]
“You can be young without money, but you cannot be old without it.” ~Tennesse Williams When it comes to spending money, men are from Mars and women are from Venus. I really am using the phrase tongue in cheek because money is security, and financial security is what every woman over 50 needs. Money becomes […]
When it comes to dressing stylishly over 50, Billy Baldwin may have said it best: “Be faithful to your own taste because nothing you really like is ever out of style.” Dressing Stylishly Over 50 I think this quote speaks to us as women over 50. In this season of our lives, it’s not always […]