How Do I Make My Market Flowers Last?
Let’s start with the care and feeding of flowers. By gaining this knowledge, you can save a life, one stem at a time, which goes some way toward making a beautiful lasting arrangement. It is remarkable how delicate flowers can appear…
Read MoreThings to Watch Out for in a Divorce
Divorce can be a traumatic experience for both parties involved. Not only does it entail the end of a relationship, but it also requires dividing assets and agreeing on living arrangements, among other things. Unfortunately, some spouses…
Read More4 Powerful Ways to Succeed When Aging Alone
The statistics is staggering – some 15 million people in the U.S. are what Carol calls elder orphans. It struck her particularly after her parents passed and she realized she was one of those orphans, with no partner and no children to take care of her…
Read More3 Good Reasons Why NOT Everyone Over 60 Needs to Do Kegels
Are you diligently doing Kegels and finding it’s not helping your pelvic health at all? Perhaps you are experiencing involuntary loss of urine or urgent messages to find the bathroom (urge incontinence)? The very symptoms Kegels are meant…
Read MoreThe Magic of Pilates and How it Helps to Improve your Quality of Life
When I first started doing Pilates seriously, it was after the birth of my two children, and I thought it would be a good way to strengthen my core. Little did I know that the benefits of Pilates would extend far beyond my abs!
Read MorePiano Lesson 6: What Is a Pickup? (Hint: It’s Not a Truck or a Flirtation)
In music there are stronger beats and weaker beats. In 4/4 time (4 beats per measure), beat 1 is generally the strongest beat and beat 3 is the second strongest. This point is well illustrated in this video. When conductor Gustavo Dudamel turns around…
Read MoreNervous About Being a Late Bloomer? 7 Ways to Go for It
When I was in my early 30s, I lived in a two-story house nestled in the forest high up in the Green mountains of Vermont. We were far from the madding crowd for months at a time. It was from that perspective on one cold, sunny morning that I was looking…
Read MoreSheer Clothing Styles for Older Women? Is This Serious?
Every few years some designer gets the hare-brained idea to feature sheer, see-through clothes on women models. In some earlier years these models wore attractive undergarments, making the “costume” (because that’s what it was, basically) less shocking…
Read MoreMy Radiation Face and Thoughts on Beauty Advice
As I age, I note that beauty advice is more of a conversation among friends, family, and even strangers. Sometimes this input is unsolicited; sometimes it’s just like when Madonna appeared on the 2023 Grammys, looking like she had swollen a tick…
Read MoreWhat If That One Thing Had Not Happened?
My 17-year-old grandson is in the process of exploring where he wants to go to university. As usual, there are ‘good’ places and ‘better’ places, and he is pondering where he is likely to be accepted and the general implications of any decision…
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