Surviving Breast Cancer – Learning to Be Flat and Fabulous
Several years ago, I was diagnosed with breast cancer at the age of sixty-nine. In a matter of hours, I was thrust headlong into a whirlwind of doctor appointments, consultations, biopsies, scans and x-rays. Through waves of gut-wrenching vulnerability…
Read MoreTurning to Individual and Systemic Action for Climate Change
Future generations will depend on the choices we are making today. Every effort to reduce carbon emissions and protect natural habitats now will be much harder to take in future decades. Sara Jaquette Ray explains that the frontline for the climate crisis…
Read MoreHonoring Women’s History Month: Anaïs Nin
March is Women’s History Month, and there are so many women to honor who’ve carved an important place in history. This month, I choose to highlight someone whose writing has personally changed my life: writer Anaïs Nin…
Read MoreTry Something New: Write a Poem and Stretch Your Brain
A couple of years ago, I began penning poetry. My life was moving in new directions, and I wanted to express myself differently than with the prose style approach I mainly used before. I enjoyed reading poetry, so I decided to try…
Read MoreCelebrating the Month of Love
Whether you believe in “Hallmark Card” holidays like Valentine’s Day or not, the month of February, also known as the Month of Love, is a good time to think about someone you love, either alive or passed. But instead of sending flowers…
Read MoreThe Life-Sustaining Value of Female Friendship During Covid
For most women, friends form the basis of our well-being. Sure, our partners may be on the front line, but, particularly for women over 60, friendships have great emotional heft. They form the basis of our social life and contribute…
Read MoreWhat Does the Loss of a Parent Leave Behind?
I lost my mother recently. It wasn’t to Covid-19, thank goodness, but it was very sudden. Because of the virus, I was not able to make a planned trip to spend Easter with her this year. Indeed, and like so many other families who have lost…
Read MoreWant to Make Extra Money in Retirement as a Freelance Writer? (Here’s a Better Idea)
Over the last 6 years, I have spent over $50,000 on freelance writing services. I have hired $100-per-hour specialists and $6 per hour transcribers. I have worked with some of these freelancers for so long that they feel like friends. Others have provided work so poor that I didn’t even bother to post it. Read More
How You Can Use Feng Shui in the Most Loving Day of the Year
Valentine’s Day is one of the few holidays that reaches all of us, regardless of our age, religion, gender, or relationship status. It’s splashed everywhere with images of romantic love, date nights, flowers…
Read MoreHow to Reclaim Your Sensuality Over 60
Do you remember a time when sex and intimacy were the most important elements in your life? Perhaps in recent years you’ve found that the urge and desire to have sex has dwindled…
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