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. 

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Today’s post on the important topic of travel scams was well-researched and written by travel expert Sandra Roussy who has written for publications such as Fodor’s Travel and was published in the NY Times best-selling book Eat Pray Love Made Me Do It! Please read up on how to avoid travel scams so that you […]

Travel Safe, Don’t Fall for These Travel Scams! Expert Shares 37 Trusted Tips

Travel

Honey Good with luggage ready to travel

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*Affiliate Disclosure I recall this spring, my spirit felt renewed and reawakened because my Ultimate Concierge and I traveled to East Africa with three of our grandsons. I felt so hopeful. I feel so hopeful.    “A woman after 50 should not want to be ‘something’ when she dons her outerwear from her closet. She […]

How to Edit and Shop Your Own Wardrobe

Style

Honey Good shows off her summer accessories in her well-organized closet

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Happy Easter, dear friends. My Ultimate Concierge and my pooch America wish you a day of celebration. Love, Shelly, Honey, and America Today is Easter. A few days ago was Passover. Loyalty is on my mind. I am fiercely devoted to the meaning of the word, loyal, and lately, after my trip to East Africa, […]

The Power of Loyalty

Relationships

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I am in a Land Rover with my husband, three grandsons, and our guide Bennie, a certified scholar and bushman driving on the vast Serengeti plain in the country of Tanzania. Within the first half hour, I became enraptured with Bennie’s history of the animal kingdom and the Serengeti plain. On our third drive, each […]

The Significance of Silence: What I Learned From the Animals of the Serengeti

Relationships

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Veterans Day inspired me to write this story. For over two years because of the Chinese Virus, I have not written about our travels because it was too sad to reminisce about our beyond-fabulous adventures!  Our travels to Normandy and the story of the Normandy Invasion and our armed forces men who lost their lives […]

How A Trip To Normandy Helped Me Appreciate Veterans More

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Many women over 50 do. I have found, the key to feeling relevant, important, and VISIBLE lies within you. I hope my free eBook will help you rediscover your purpose, and see the value that I so clearly see in you. 

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