2 weeks ago
Sleep Tight: 10 Tips to Improve Your Health Through Solid Sleep
I’m nearly 70, and I figure I’ve spent over 203,000 hours of my life snoozing. That’s 8,500 24-hour days, 1200 weeks, 300 months, or 25 solid years of sleep. Call me Rip Van Winkle. I’ve loved every minute of it. Read More
2 weeks ago
Audiobooks: My Second-Best Friend This Side of 60
I love audiobooks. I’m an overcommitted woman who’s constantly on the move, either exercising or busy with home and community activities. I treasure literature and love to read…
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4 weeks ago
I’ll Take Mine Black: A Coffee Adventure for Mature Women with Strong Hearts
“I love coffee, I love tea. I love the boys, and the boys love me.”
I chanted that silly jump-rope jingle hundreds of times on the Oak Knoll Playground, certain that I’d never acquire a taste for either coffee or tea. Little did I know.
1 month ago
9 Brain Builders and 3 Brain Drainers Boomer Women Need to Consider in Their Diet
As I slide into my 70s, I find myself forgetting names with more regularity every day. It’s getting so common that I often stay out of conversations because I can’t remember the name of the politician…
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3 months ago
6 Ways Adopting a Pet Can Improve Your Live as an Older Woman
I’ve always loved dogs, but allergies in the household kept me from having one. After a painful divorce 18 years ago, I decided to buy a little non-shedding poodle/terrier. On the way home from the pet store I tried out a raft of names…
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5 months ago
It’s Berry Season: 6 Good Reasons to Indulge – and Boost Your Health While You’re at It!
I admit it – I’m hooked. Not generally a greedy person, when I’m faced with bushes of free berries, I go nuts. Ballistic. I can’t stop myself. Not only that, but I can’t pass the berry display in the grocery store…
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6 months ago
10 Reasons Why Travel Broadens the Life of the Baby Boomer Generation
I just returned from three weeks in Turkey. My heart was full, my mind replete with warm memories, and my computer teeming with new photos. The best part, though, was that my travel compatriots now love Turkey as much as I do…
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7 months ago
Discover Qigong to Combine the Benefits of Fitness and Massage
No need to decide, because you can get both at once with qigong (CHEE-gong), the gentlest form of martial arts. Read More
8 months ago
Change That Behavior – Choose a Reward That Stimulates Positive Change After 60
Have you kept your New Year’s Resolutions? According to the U.S. News and World Report, 80% of resolutions fail by February, most by January 12th. Really. Read More
9 months ago
9 Behavior Patterns of Healthy Senior Weight Loss: Forget Diets, Think Behavior!
“Thin behavior” has fascinated me for years. I just don’t get it. I don’t mean the kind of behavior where skinny kids squeezed through fence slats in the alley, or where my teenaged friends stretched thin, nubile bodies on the beach at Shady Oak Lake as I huddled on my towel. Read More
