How to Recapture the Fitness Level You Lost Under Quarantine
If your body has been creaky and cranky lately from too much sitting, computer time and television, you might be feeling a little wobbly. That’s natural. However, you might also have undermined some of your core strength with sedentary habits…
Read MoreVaccines Can’t Do It Alone – How to Help Them Protect Our Health
There is really positive and exciting news these days about the expanding availability of a variety of vaccines designed to help protect us from SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19 disease. Many healthcare experts are saying…
Read MoreSenior Blood Pressure
We’re all guilty of not doing the right things for our health even when we clearly know better. The chicken salad or the cheese burger with fries? To exercise or not exercise? In the end, we’re allowed to enjoy ourselves once in a while. It’s the difference between moderation versus poor health habits. Poor habits […]
Read MoreShould You Worry About Your Bone Density? Here’s How to Combat Thinning Bones
Thinning of the bones is inevitable for women after 60, right? For 10 years I was hovering in the osteopenia range, blond, blue-eyed, with Northern European heritage. I thought I had to just live with it, swallow my calcium…
Read MoreMoving Your Root Chakra Can Help You Navigate Your Grief
In our Sixty and Me community, there is grief, loss, and transition. Our loved ones pass on; we lose jobs, homes, relationships, our youthful bodies, and more; we transition from who we were at 20, 30 or 40 to an older and wiser…
Read More31 Bold Hairstyles for Women Over 60 from Real-world Icons of Style
Searching the Internet for advice on hairstyles for older women is somewhat of a depressing exercise. It’s easy to find pictures of celebrities at various red-carpet events. But, finding pictures of stylish “real-world” women who are breaking…
Read MoreExploring the Makeup Line of Merit, a Clean Beauty Makeup Brand (VIDEO)
As we all know, just about any makeup will look great on us when we’re 20 or 30, but how products perform on our over-50 skin is a whole other ballgame! So today, we’re going to take a look at the six new makeup products…
Read MoreWhy Backpacking Is the Perfect Way to Let Go of Time, Worries and Other People’s Needs
Have you ever had the urge to enter the wilderness with a backpack, but dismissed it as an impossibly silly dream, because you felt too old and out of shape? I am here to tell you that you can do it! You don’t need to be young, thin, athletic or tough…
Read More8 Things to Remember as We Age and Come to Terms with Hormonal Changes
Whether we want to lose or gain weight, we cannot ignore these facts. That is, unless we want to bury our heads in the sand, or we have discovered the secret to Eternal Youth and still have the body we had when we were 18!
Read MoreSewing Project: A 1920s Apron
Have you ever wanted to sew, but were intimidated or overwhelmed by what project to try first? An apron is a tried and true sewing project that is not only timeless but a useful item. You could even give a handmade one to a baker or gardener friend!
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