“I’ve had to buy all new clothes” exclaimed a great friend of mine who came to dinner the other night wearing fabulous faux leather slacks but having shed the 35 extra pounds she had been carrying on her for years. Wow, I thought. “I’m not even hungry,” (double wow) she told me, ordering the tiniest … Continue reading A MAGIC BULLET
It was not a pretty sight, I can tell you that. A bit frightful as well, truth be told. But it provided a valuable lesson. And isn’t that the case with so many unfortunate happenings when you choose to be an optimist and take the good with the bad. It happened during my first kayaking … Continue reading A Cautionary Tale
If we all looked as magnificent as model Carmen Dell’Orefice, we would all go gray. But there is a huge part of me that thinks that she is an anomaly and that going gray is a little bit like giving up. Or, at least, giving in. For the life of me I cannot remember the … Continue reading Going Gray Or Giving Up?
Age is so much more than a number. I was suddenly awakened to that concept just the other day when for the first time – now that I am in my 60’s – I calmly recognized that I had already lived many more years than I had left. Which is to say, I am getting … Continue reading Act Old Later
“I hate your hair!” Honestly, those were the first words that came out of my good friend’s mouth upon seeing, for the very first time, my transformation from straight haired lass to a newly curled one. I had decided two weeks prior to get a perm (a la Glenn Close in FATAL ATTRACTION), thinking it … Continue reading Filterless Friends
Are you happy? If so, why? I ask this question because for the 6th year in a row the United Nations World Happiness Report has ranked Finland as the happiest nation on earth, despite opinions to the contrary expressed by its very own citizens. “I wouldn’t say that I consider us very happy,” said Nina … Continue reading HAPPINESS HIGH
There is no finer representation of “later in life” joy than finding love when you least expected it. Like after the loss of a beloved spouse, for instance. Love lost and then found again is magical for everyone, however it does seem to happen to men more often than women, I think. But whether it’s … Continue reading Death Defying Dating
Burning Daylight 