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  • My 'Santa Baby' Inspired Christmas List

    Won't you sing along with me?

  • Beginning my daily 'Brain Dump'

    What is a brain dump? It's my term for the first step in unblocking my creativity and opening up a conscious stream of ideas. I am reading The Artists Way, and from what I read, this is the first step of regaining and unblocking creativity.

  • A more pleasant, less painful approach to daily fitness

    SkI'm 45. Okay, we got that out of the way. I'm also overweight-actually, 'curvey' is what I like to call it because it makes being 'fat' sound more palatable. In just in the last 2 years, I have actually convinced myself through reading and rationalizing that I need to exercise. I need to do this b

  • Ooch, Ouch! My body seems to be sabotaging my exercise plan!

    I'm 45. Okay, we got that out of the way. I'm also overweight, uh, 'curvey' is actually what I like to call it because it makes being 'fat' sound more palatable. In just in the last 2 years, I have actually convinced myself through reading and rationalizing that I need to exercise. I need to do this

  • 2nd Chances-What are you going to do with the other half of YOUR life?

    While on the elliptical this morning, (yes, I go to the gym to escape) I was reading an article about today's middle-aged parents on the subject of 'empty nesters'. The article was talking about how people no longer curl up and wait to die, feeling forlorn and lonely after their children move out. T

  • Let's talk GUILTY PLEASURES, shall we?

    Going in to purchase expensive boquets of flowers...surely a Guilty Pleasure for some....Last night, as I sat in a throne-like chair getting a pedicure, I was flipping through a magazine which had a small article on the subject of guilty pleasures. I suppose the difference between 'guilty' pleasures

  • Calling all Cardiologists...I have a question

    My dearest friend just found out this past week she has two heart problems-tachycardia and also, far worse, a dilated aorta. Apparently, a test was done and her dilation is 4.7. My question is, what causes this, what is her outlook for the future, and is this something she can live with, or does it

  • Guys, aren't you just furious?

    My husband has been saying this for a long time now, and I'm beginning to notice it more and more. Everywhere, movies, TV commercials and radio spots, you see men depicted as ditzy, inept and foolish. This really bothers me. Where I notice it most is on radio commercials where there is usually a 30

  • Lipstick-#1 in the makeup bag

    Yes, I've found it to be true. Lipstick is my friend. There was a time when I never wore it-I thought it made me look older. Heck, during high school, the most attention my lips ever got was a quick slick from a big ole' Bonnie Bell strawberry lip gloss. But never lipstick. Now, 30 years later, I ca

  • Girlfriends, cherish your times together

    Mr. Big to Samantha, Miranda and Charlotte: "You're the loves of her life and a guy's just lucky to come in fourth."Big, of course, understood, (even if it was ficticious), that a woman's friends are everything to her, especially as we get older and more independent. Sometimes, in some ways, more im

  • Can having GIRLFRIENDS cause us to live longer?

    I was reading an old issue of Oprah magazine, (which, by the way, is very substantive reading), and caught an article about womens' friendships and how important they are to us gals.Apparently, women value their friendships much more than men do. They take them more seriously, sincerely care about w

  • Kissing...is there anything better?

    As I sit here typing, I am listening to love songs on my computer. I don't know about you, but when I listen to sexy love songs, I can't help but get in the mood. I can only guess, but love songs do for me what porn must do for most men. Vava vooom--I'm in the mood. Most of the time, the entire act

  • Women growing older and embracing it....get pumped!

    Googled 'Older Woman' and this page of funny 'folklore' came up...I thought I'd share it with you as an intro to my schpeel on growing older.

  • Look in the mirror and find something you love.....

    No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.--Eleanor Roosevelt

  • Can submitting our lists to the universe actually make them come true?

    I just picked up an older issue of Oprah magazine and I read an interesting article about a woman who created a Perfect Man list. On it was everything she required in a man, from his occupation to his physical characteristics, right on down to his taste in music and favorite hobbies. This list was a

  • A woman's middle age gripes and acceptance

    Yesterday I was wearing some trial contacts all day with the hope that they will be comfortable enough to commit to. My desire is to finally chuck the eyeglasses that have become a part of my face since 1st grade. A few things happened after I suction cupped those babies to my eyeballs.

  • What constitutes your personal style?

    "Why can't you wear black shoes like all the other mother's?" whined Anouk, to her mother, Vianne, from the movie Chocolat. She seemed bothered that all the townspeople thought different of her mom because she had a very original style (among other, more questionable traits)-that emerged from having

  • A bone to pick with fashion magazines...

    Okay. Maybe I'm being ridiculous or it's very possible I just don't get it. Why do fashion magazines, with the exception of Vogue or Harpers Bazar, put clothing on their models that are so outrageously expensive, most mainstream women can only dream of owning them, much less actually go out and purc

  • The dubiousness I feel

    My son, a month before college....they grow up so fast.Lately it is overwhelming. I recently sent my son Scott off to college and with that comes the stark realization that I'm pretty much done with him in terms of raising him. When my kids leave the nest for college, a multitude of emotions come cr