top of page
Search
Jane Leder
Sep 21, 20222 min read
Older Women & Friends
If you haven't subscribed (free) to "Older Women & Friends" on Facebook, please do. The comments are fascinating and are helping me plan...
0 comments
Jane Leder
Sep 16, 20222 min read
The Creative Process
In my last blog, I suggested a few potential titles for my upcoming podcast and asked for your input. Thank you to those of you who...
1 comment
Jane Leder
Aug 16, 20221 min read
I'm Hoping to Hear From You
Just a quick follow-up to my post last week. I only heard from a handful of you about the potential title of my upcoming podcast. Since...
2 comments
Jane Leder
Aug 9, 20222 min read
Podcast, Anyone?
Well, when a therapist asked me what I wanted to accomplish in my seventy-seventh year, I rattled off a list of what many senior women...
3 comments
Jane Leder
Jul 30, 20223 min read
Hey, 77 Ain't So Bad After All
Okay, let's cut to the chase. No one in their right mind would expect that number seventy-seven would be much more than a ho-hum affair....
1 comment
Jane Leder
Jul 18, 20225 min read
Adventures of a City Gardener
Around August 2020, more than four months into the first deadly wave of Covid, I needed a new project to keep me sane. I’d gone through...
0 comments
Jane Leder
Jul 11, 20223 min read
We Gotta Get Out of This Place
We gotta get out of this place If it's the last thing we ever do We gotta get out of this place Girl, there's a better life for me and...
1 comment
Jane Leder
Jun 25, 20223 min read
Hey, I'm Old. There's Nothing Wrong With That
Dear family and friends, we are gathered here today to honor and celebrate our losses big and small, and to welcome into the fold the...
2 comments
Jane Leder
May 4, 20223 min read
Bra Extenders: Who Knew?
I didn't get the memo. Nope, no one ever told me that If your bra is too tight--if it prevents you from breathing--or if your underwire...
0 comments
Jane Leder
Apr 27, 20224 min read
Reunions: To Go or Not to Go
Get ready, get set, and go. Or throw the invite to your high school or college or professional organization's reunion into the garbage...
0 comments
Jane Leder
Apr 16, 20223 min read
Mother's Day Came Early This Year
My mother has been dead for thirteen years, almost fourteen or fifteen if you count the years when she remembered my family and me but at...
0 comments
Jane Leder
Mar 20, 20223 min read
THOSE FOREVER MEMORIES
My brother took his life more than four decades ago. Over the intervening years, I have written a book about teen suicide now in its...
1 comment
Jane Leder
Mar 5, 20223 min read
Women Who Dance Together Stay Together
It's been a while since I've blogged. Maybe it's the warm, sultry weather her in Mexico or the sweet sound of songbirds, or the seemingly...
0 comments
Jane Leder
Jan 8, 20224 min read
Have Brain Fog Like Me? Breathe
I don't have Covid (at least, not yet) but I do have brain fog. Sometimes I sit and stare at the computer screen or in front of the TV or...
0 comments
Jane Leder
Dec 28, 20214 min read
Adios 2021
It's been one hell of a year--a rollercoaster ride of highs and lows, ups and downs. There was the utter fear of Covid 19 without any...
0 comments
Jane Leder
Dec 17, 20213 min read
Jingle Your Own Bells (Or Why The Hell Do We Turn Our Clocks Back?)
Oh, jingle bells, jingle bells Jingle all the way Oh, what fun it is to ride In a one horse open sleigh Jingle bells, jingle bells Jingle...
0 comments
Jane Leder
Nov 30, 20213 min read
First It Was "Family Feud." Now It's "The Voice."
If you've been reading my blog--I sure hope you have--you know that I realized that I'd hit bottom during the Pandemic when I started...
1 comment
Jane Leder
Nov 16, 20214 min read
My Life at a Glance
I have kept my "daily appointment" calendars since 1989! I'm not sure why. They take up valuable bookshelf space; still, I've been...
0 comments
Jane Leder
Nov 9, 20213 min read
The Library & Me (& You)
I must have been three maybe four when my mother took me to the McGregor Library for the first time. The smell of new books reminded me...
0 comments
Jane Leder
Oct 29, 20213 min read
"I didn't find his contact information but his obituary instead."
I don't remember most of the dream I had the other night. It was something about me having decided to expand my circle of friends--my...
3 comments
bottom of page