How to Fight Negative Thoughts by Changing Your Mindset
What internal messages do you hold onto? Are they positive or negative? You become what you think. If you think of yourself positively, your brain agrees with you and treats you with respect. If you don’t – guess what?
Read MoreRecalling My Experience During Breast Cancer Awareness Month
Receiving a diagnosis of breast cancer is like staring down a huge, dark hole that you must jump into. You don’t know how far down you’ll drop or what awaits you when you get there. All you know is that it’s dark and, possibly, bottomless…
Read MoreFall into Comfort with Warm Elote Soup (RECIPE)
It’s Autumn. A season of heightened rifling through our collection of over one hundred cookbooks (we read them like novels) and old recipes committed to memory. Even in sunny St. Petersburg, Florida, there will soon be an undeniable…
Read MoreBreast Cancer Can Happen to Any Woman – Can You Be a Survivor?
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, which, for me, is another reminder that it’s been more than two decades since my diagnosis in 2000. Back then, one in five women was affected. Today, the American Cancer Society claims…
Read MoreLess Is More! 4 Reasons Most Older Women Need a Fashion Formula
If you are a woman who follows the blogger, Instagram and Twitter fashionistas of the world, you have probably gained the impression that you need to wear something new and different every single day. Wrong!
Read MoreWhat Are the Best 50th Birthday Gifts for Women?
What do women really want? That’s the question that many of us find ourselves asking as a friend approaches her 50th birthday. After all, 50 today is not what it was a generation or two ago. 50-year-old women today…
Read MoreUsing the READ Strategy with Grandchildren
Almost all grandparents realize that their grandchildren benefit when they read to them. However, if you want to really maximize the educational benefit of such an activity, you should READ when you read. And just what is READ?
Read MoreHow Is Retirement Different in the Age of Covid?
Before March 2020, you might have made big plans for your retirement – travel, moving to a new home, pursuing a new business, starting new hobbies, pursuing all sorts of passions, and meeting new people. Then Covid happened…
Read More7 Tips for Women Over 60 to Get More from Social Media
Social Media is mainstream and everyone is jumping on board. Many of us over 60 don’t really know what Social Media will do, but we are willing to give it a try. People say it will help us connect with friends and family, give us advice…
Read MoreStreaming My Way via Vicarious Travel
Freedom to travel continues to be a much-loved experience that I fear won’t be repeated anytime soon. There are many things I miss about visiting other countries, but the most stimulating for me has been absorbing local culture…
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