Let’s Not Expect Too Much From New Year’s Eve

It won’t erase a devastating year, no matter how festive…

I Made a Film to Challenge “Anti-Aging.” Here’s What I Learned.

My Florida Retirement…not!

“The best-laid plans of mice and men”-Robert Burns

Periodopausal

When my daughter got her period a few years ago she introduced me to an app called Clue. It tracks your period. You input your…

Yin and Yang

A few weeks ago I flew down to Phoenix to spend time with my mother and stepfather. My mother is seventy-nine and my stepfather Al is…

The Glittery Path of Friendship

Friendship Glitters

The Road Home

Last night terrible cramps wove their way into my dreams. I’m one of those annoying women who says, “I’ve never had menstrual cramps,”…

Party Style Twists

Last week I wore my hair down with two twists, one on each side of my middle part. Because of my cowlick, I couldn’t get the twists even, but I wore them anyway. When I was a kid we called this “party style.” I rarely wear my hair down. It makes me feel young, somehow not myself. That night I…

True Nature

This year at my family’s annual holiday party I was talking to my friend Heidi, a physical therapist/wise woman who has two teenage daughters and is herself in peri-menopause. “I’m totally in puberty,” she said. “ The difference is that now I can see it. I can see from outside looking in what is happening…

Freedom

Fall has come like the click of a camera. All of a sudden the leaves have changed. The air is cool and I want to eat soup. This morning I woke up well before sunrise. As I drank my coffee and stared out into my back patio, I found myself thinking back to last year at this time. In October of last year, I had just…