“You’re too skinny.” “Why don’t you put on some weight?” I’m one of those who has weighed pretty much the same as I did in high school. The only time I ever put on weight was during pregnancy. Minus the nine-months-on-nine-months-off that I practiced for that time in my life, I’ve worked hard to maintain […]

What do you consider middle age? The answer depends on your age. The younger you are, the younger your answer. But in most cases, people usually settle somewhere around the 50 year mark as our point of reference. It works. If we have hopes to live to be 100 – and that’s increasingly becoming a […]

You wake up one day, and suddenly you’re old. Well, not exactly. Ask me my age, and I’ll tell you I’m 52 going on 29, at least in the way I feel. Yet I proudly wear my 52 like a badge of honor. It’s taken me 52 years to get here! Maybe it has something […]

So you’re hitting the BIG ONE this year. Ask yourself two questions. What have I done with my life so far? What do I have left to do? Those two questions hit you – WHAM – over the head when you realize your 50th birthday is in sight. And as you are questioning, what do […]

A little voice inside my head said: Don’t look back, you can never look back.   Isn’t that the curse of aging? All you do is look back at your life, wondering what you’ve accomplished, what you didn’t do, what’s forever out of reach. At 52, I’ve had my share of mornings where all I’ve […]

I remember when cooking was a chore. My daughter declared herself a vegetarian at three. I figured it was a trend. So we ate “vegetarian” chicken and “vegetarian” turkey for many months until my ploy was discovered. Yes, looking back I’ll admit it probably wasn’t my greatest move. But I was a mom. I wanted […]

I think it’s impossible to mark a BIG birthday without having something to say about it. Maybe it’s because no one around me will let me forget it’s a BIG birthday. Or maybe it’s because I’ve made so many changes to my life in the past two years, reflecting and planning has become a part […]

What if everything you have right now went away, and was no longer in your life one year from today? What would that do to who you are as a person? What if your company went a new direction and handed you a pink slip effective immediately? What if your house suddenly burned to the […]

Every year, a variety of sources do it. Oxford University Press chose the word selfies. Merriam-Webster chose the word science. Dictionary.com chose the word privacy. And while each of them chose a word after looking at the year in review, I’ve always taken a slightly different approach to the “word of the year” concept. Instead […]