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Wear Your Life Well: A Mantra for 2020 love your life Aug 12, 2020

Amanda confided "I haven't felt *pretty* since the lockdown, I'm losing my mojo and my stay-at-home-style is schlumpy."

Catherine is currently doing a closet edit. She's bemoaned the fact that she ca...

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Uncover Your Secret Strength fashion your style May 23, 2020

It’s not about seducing men, it’s about embracing womanhood.

~Dita Von Teese

My granddaughter Zoë, just two and recently potty trained, started to hop around at the mall as if she was dancing on a b...

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Life Questions design your life May 16, 2020

A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer
It sings because it has a song.

~Maya Angelou 

If you've read Wear Your Life Well you know I have some opinions about being authentic and knowing that you...

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Spring 2020 Stress Shopping fashion your style May 13, 2020

There's nothing about the Spring 2020 fashion scene that's typical. Come to think of it (sigh) so far there's been nothing typical about 2020 at all.

Some clothing stores and malls are slated to reop...

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Don't Let Those Pounds Weigh You Down design your life May 13, 2020

I need to social distance myself from my refrigerator so I can flatten my curve.

~Facebook

Yes, I've gained weight.

No, I don't know how much. I haven't summoned the courage to step onto a scale, j...

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Treat Yourself Gently fashion your style Apr 30, 2020

To me beauty is about being comfortable in your own skin. It’s about knowing and accepting who you are.

~Ellen DeGeneres

Eventually the day comes when we no longer recognize that girl in the mirror ...

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Flummoxed love your life Apr 27, 2020

I'm more than a wee-bit-weary of all the COVID-19 transformational nonsense that *on-line motivational gurus* are preaching to have me accomplish unreasonably uber-ambitious goals, so I can carpe diem...

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Uncommon Women on Common Ground love your life Apr 22, 2020

You keep going.

Because your uncommon efforts lead to uncommon strength in uncommon times.

You are stronger and more important than you know.

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Bad Hair Days love your life Apr 15, 2020

First went the hand sanitizer, disinfectants and toilet paper. Now hair clippers and hair dye are flying off the shelves.

I've seen more than a few posts on Facebook by women who are becoming do-it-y...

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Living with Uncertainty love your life Apr 08, 2020

What day is it? What week is it?

It's been a while since I've written to you. I don't even know what to say in these tumultuous times. 

I want to reach out to you as one woman to another, to encoura...

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Get into Change Shape design your life Mar 16, 2020

It takes courage to stay interested — to be interesting — and to live an interesting life. You have to reinvent yourself over and over.

~Robin Fisher Roffer

Ever wondered what’s next?

I have learne...

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Find Your Funny love your life Mar 14, 2020
 

Life is too important to be taken seriously.

~Oscar Wilde


The first time it happened I was horrified.

Within a few days of my 55th birthday, I stopped at a corner drug store to pick up some clea...

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