The Terror of Inheriting a Mess Part 3: Your Scary Stories
After sharing Part 1 and Part 2 of this series, and since I keep receiving comments, emails, and shared stories from readers and other women I have talked with recently, I thought it only fitting to finish with one more blog on the scariest day of the year…
Read MoreThe Terror of Inheriting a Mess: Part 2
What better time to complete this topic series than October, National Estate Planning Awareness Month!?! Based on your feedback and sharing from Part 1, this blog shares stories, tips and encouragement for those who have experienced inheriting a mess…
Read MoreThe Terror of Inheriting a Mess: Part 1
What do you do when you inherit a mess? Where do you start? How do you move forward? Part of one woman’s solution, Heather Parker, was to become an estate planning attorney to help others avoid the same mess she experienced in her family…
Read MoreChasing Horizons: A Journey Worth Taking
If we were the pilots of our own flight of life’s fulfillment and meaning, would the Universe choose who would accompany us on our journey? Let’s see. There would be a flight crew, a co-pilot, passengers…
Read MoreSwimsuits for Older Women: How to Find a Flattering Bathing Suit
How does a woman over 60 find a comfortable and fashionable bathing suit that will cover up a little unwanted weight? Where can she find a style that creates a flattering look? Fortunately, in recent years, designers have started to think about how to create…
Read MoreMy Exploration of London: The Serpentine Galleries, North and South
Continuing in my London travel series, I’d like to introduce you to the Serpentine Galleries (now officially called Serpentine South and Serpentine North) located inside London’s gorgeous Hyde Park and extending to Kensington Gardens. On this visit in mid-October, I saw both exhibits, North and South. Serpentine South Gallery sits just south of the Serpentine […]
Read MoreEstate Planning: Don’t Wait – Vow to Tell Someone
In the spirit of Halloween, I couldn’t NOT share this picture I took on a lovely Fall walk the other day. It made me chuckle but also think about the futility of waiting for the perfect anything… man in our life, time to achieve a goal on our list, or tackle the dreaded estate planning…
Read MoreWhy Can’t I Lose Weight? How Trauma Sabotages Weight Loss for High Achieving Women (VIDEO)
High achieving women in their 50s and 60s who struggle with making consistently healthy food choices tend to have one thing in common: a history of trauma. Even if these same women have spent years in therapy and are at peace with the traumatic…
Read MoreDid You Parent from Your Own Past Pain? Forgive Yourself and Move On
Parenting is hard. Parenting while carrying your own childhood wounds? Even harder.
Many of us brought our pasts into motherhood without even realizing it. We didn’t set out to repeat old patterns or project our pain – but sometimes, that’s exactly what happened…
The Beanie Baby Debacle: My Brush with Valulosis
I recently listened to a podcast about the Beanie Baby craze of the 1990s, and it triggered a memory so bizarre, it’s part of an urban legend – except it happened to me. In the mid-90s, I was a third-grade teacher with a classroom full of kids and, naturally, a collection…
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