Three years ago, my mom and I broke up.
Lessons from My Breakup with Mom. Or, maybe, just My Mother’s Day Blog.
Welcome to THE NEW NORMAL & The 5 Things you can do to Prepare Yourself for Tomorrow
We can safely RESTART our lives.
Piano Lessons at SIXTY
Did you ever take piano lessons? I did, when I was 12? But allow me to backtrack a bit for when I first noticed the piano at home. My music loving father, he played the piano; he played by ear – ouido. He had this big record collection - Bach, Chopin, Wagner, Strauss, Mozart,…
SALAD DAYS (and pizza) Ahoy
I had a lovely apple and walnut green salad and fresh burrata and basil pizza and just water please, with a slice of lemon lunch last Monday with 2 friends from high school. Lunching with my 58 or 59 and above friends is so much more meaningful now. On different stages of our lives,…
In Praise of Not-Yet-Empty-Nesters, otherwise titled: How to Enjoy Having Adult Children at Home
I have a full nest. My children are all single adults and fairly – am trying to be humble here – doing well. My 31 year old son, an Aspie (person with Asperger's Syndrome, Google this please), takes short certificate courses, busies himself decorating and redecorating his room with corkboards filled with photos of…
Travel blog: Season 1 episode 1: AN INTRODUCTION to TRAVEL THROUGH POSTCARDS
TRAVEL BLOG. Side by side with food and fashion, mommy and parenting, health, beauty and fitness, TRAVEL is arguably the first for the Blog spot checkered flag to wave for. It’s the distraction, the constant change and move, the wanderlust. For some, it’s part of or comes with the job. For a sad few,…
Good Days and Bad Days
It’s funny now, but it wasn’t a few days, up to a few hours ago. See, last month I read something that went like this -- EVERYTHING IS TEMPORARY. So if something wonderful happens to you, enjoy and really savor the moment. But do not forget that it’s temporary. And then. Something not-so-nice will take…
PURPOSE and Re-PURPOSE
We moved to a charming ‘80s house a few months ago and I can’t tell you how many friends I have asked, those who moved, and those who have moved again and again, how long it took them to unbox everything, discard from the old and finally settle. Change and movement, I understand, is a…
It's how I like to describe BIRTHDAY. You're in chapter 12, chapter 15, and 18 now, I would tell my kids - and now that they are in Chapters 23, 28 and 31 and Honey is in 60, I am looking at my Chapter 59. Thinking am not quite "there" yet, whatever "there" has in…
59 and above 