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.
*Affiliate Disclosure Of All the Flower Metaphors, I Most Relate To… Life is filled with flower metaphors, and I live life by my favorite one, through rose-colored glasses! Since childhood, I have used my eyes more than my mind to take in life. My eyes have always been the windows to other worlds. My darlings, […]
Are you living your life with contentment after 50? Though I wrote this story a few years ago, the sentiment still weighs on my heart, so I thought I’d revisit it. How I Live a Life of Contentment After 50 I have learned we choose to be contented women over 50 or discontented. We have […]
The love and devotion my Ultimate Concierge and I have received from our dogs, our beautiful Orchid, and our deliciously happy America, have outweighed any troubles either pooch has gotten themselves into. Such examples include eating shoes, awakening me at 3:00 am to take a necessary walk, or running off with my clothes. Our Soft-Coated […]
The story on safe solo travel (and group travel) was updated on January 22, 2023. If you live in or travel to a big city like New York, Los Angeles, London, Paris, Chicago, Sydney or Berlin, you’ll quickly have to gain your street smarts. Unfortunately, I have a feeling one of the last things on […]
Our pets always have a way of making the start of each week even more enjoyable. Today, Kimberly Artley informs us about how we can improve the human-canine relationship we have with our pooches through the walk. It’s such an important part of America‘s day and my day, too—enjoy! The Human-Canine Relationship One of the […]