Fashion Fail? DAR – What is going on with Kanye West’s wife? Her wardrobe (if you can call the barely there outfits a wardrobe) scream, “I am a sex slave/fashion muse of an ex Kardashian family member in Frankenstenian pursuit of an old Kim in a new Bianca.” DOR – First of all who amongst … Continue reading Dar & Dor Q & A
“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
An old friend used to say “Proper Preparation Prevents Piss Poor Performance.” And so, as we are all going to get older, and then, finally, old, we should really start preparing for our best older age now. If you’d like a preview into what that elder world could look like, just have an injury. It … Continue reading The 6 P’S
I am in the midst of tracking my life. Why? To make it a better life, of course.Engaging in the act of closely observing how I am now living and then springing into action to make corrections where needed. ‘It’s a good thing,” as Martha Stewart would say, and I highly recommend it. For instance, … Continue reading Habitual Happiness
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 just spoke with a friend who said she had just walked 8 miles. Another who will say YES to almost anything that provides new experiences, like skydiving which she has enthusiastically done. Another friend speaks several languages and has decided to enhance her love of language and the arts by volunteering at a museum. … Continue reading The 2% Way
“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
Burning Daylight 