The 5 Biggest Myths about Aging

I recently read an article by a famous author, lamenting how old and decrepit she felt. I braced myself, ready to hear she’d just turned 102. Instead, her age was 69, two years more than me. I looked down at myself and although no one would mistake me for 25, I feel strangely okay in […]

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“When I’m…64???” (Yikes.)

You can’t imagine how old and wretched I pictured this age when I first heard Paul McCartney’s song back in 1967. I still have about ten days to go, but can’t help comparing the lyrics then to the reality today… When I get older losing my hair Many years from now… My husband Randy (also […]

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As You Grow Older, Do You Become…“More?”

  Someone once said we discover who we really are as we age. I used to wonder if that was true. And yet as the years have crept by, some personality traits seem not only hardwired, but (God forbid) more pronounced. Here are seven ways I’ve gotten worse—or better—in my sixties. Can you relate? More […]

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To Color or Not to Color: That is the Question.

  We’ve all seen those women. They look gorgeous in gray or silver hair. Helen Mirren, Emmylou Harris, and Jamie Lee Curtis come to mind. But it’s still a big leap for many. More and more, I’m flirting with the idea of seeing what “lies beneath” my processed hair color (I truly have no idea). […]

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The Morning The Cat Didn’t Wake Me

  Oh my God, I thought, waking an hour later than usual. Where’s Rocky? He always roused me at the crack of dawn with his loud “Meoooowwww!” I recently wrote a post about this 16-year-old deaf, geriatric cat. And the looming, sad morning he might not come into our room and start my day. Was […]

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A New Guilty Pleasure (And It’s a Doozy)

You know when you start doing something and at first it feels strange, but then you grow to love it? You look around and wonder if you’re the only weirdo doing this? You even feel guilty for liking it so much, but can’t seem to stop. Here’s how my new guilty pleasure went down this week…

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My God. We Have to Trick Ourselves Into Downsizing?

  You know when there’s something you must do, but can’t face it? You find yourself “backing into” the situation, pretending you’re not really doing it…even though you are? That’s how Randy and I feel about selling our home. We tell ourselves we’re only fixing it up after fifteen years – inside and out– because […]

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What Would You Tell Your Younger Self?

Many years ago I turned seventeen, so young and dewy, so eager to begin. If I could go back in time, what would I say to this insecure, vulnerable creature?  What would you say to your seventeen-old-self? Here’s what I’d tell mine… Be who you are, not whom you think you should be. I always […]

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