I Tried 3 Monat Hair Product Samples
How Well Does Monat Work on Middle-Aged Hair? One of my readers is a Monat distributor. We came to a happy arrangement. She’d send me some samples. I’d use them and write a review. I had some preconceived notions. A few years back, my hubby had a client who gave him...
Who Am I?
This may just be the central question of midlife… “Who AM I?” It’s not often that three simple works leave me utterly shook. Rarer still do three simple words stick in my mind for days on end. (Unless you count that earworm, “Sweet Brown - Ain’t Nobody Got Time for...
How to Become More Resilient
Resilient, AKA: How Not to Lose Your Sh&t All. The.Time. It was outrageous. Totally and completely unfair. Unjust, unreasonable, unconscionable. And she had had it. She could feel her tears rolling down her cheek - too many to even wipe away before they dropped...
No Midlife Crisis Here – Christie’s Secret
How One Woman Averted a Midlife Crisis by Learning to Put Herself on the List, Too She had boundless energy and this super-contagious smile. She was smart, always looked cute, and was kind to everyone she met. Oh, and she was on the pom-pom squad and looked so...
You Don’t Have to Be Lonely in Midlife
Feeling Lonely in Midlife? Squad Goals Aren’t Just for 20-Somethings Taylor Swift has a squad, the Rats and the Brats had packs, Scooby had his gang, and the lords of the ring have a fellowship. Whether you have a small group of close friends or a large network of...
Midlife Woman Discovers the Trees Are Still Green on Life’s Detours
Puzzled by your own life's detours? This lady has a gift for you. Young women make plans. Older women do, too. But we know that even if the plans we made as young women mostly played out, the path from here to there took some twists. Even more, we know that sometimes...
Beyond Happy and Sad: You’ve Got at Least 55 More Emotions
How are you feeling today, beautiful friend? Do you even know the words to put to the emotions you feel? Or is your emotional vocabulary limited to happy and sad – maybe with a dash of mad and some other random variation of “fine”? We create our own experience...
How to Really Be Happy in Midlife
For those on the quest to be happy… OK, actually, this secret for how to be happy would work no matter your age. It’s just that you might not be ready for it until long after you’ve duked it out with life for several decades. For the past few years, the most...