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.
Lately, my mind has been flooded with disappointments caused by bad decisions. I feel bogged down and engulfed in a deluge of baggage. It is very uncomfortable to fall short and blow an important decision. In my case, I did not have enough information to make a smart decision, so I relied on others: references […]
Everyone says forgiveness is a lovely idea until they have something to forgive – C.S. Lewis Forgiving a person that hurts you is difficult. And forgetting can be nearly impossible. Explain this to your grandchildren. You might say something like: “I have learned, dear Grands of mine, that we hurt ourselves when we harbor anger. […]
From my personal experience, darlings, our lives are lived forward but understood backward. I know you cannot grasp the magnitude of what I just wrote, because until the past few months, I couldn’t have understood it either. You see, darlings, by good fortune I’ve found the missing link … it is all in understanding how […]
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 […]
There are days that I turn on the TV and I am appalled at what is going on in our society. Every day the news shows us another story where someone did something awful. It seems many people have lost the values that many of us were brought up with. I have to wonder—where […]