I was reading an article about Diana Nyad, the long-distance swimmer who broke every record on the books. In the New Yorker piece from...

If you go to the refrigerator and forget why you were there--not a big deal. But if you make the same trip and forget what a refrigerator i

There is something bugging me. Not a big thing, not an important thing. It's just that I bristle when I hear that someone is gone or...

I guess I'm out of step--behind the curve. Until this morning, I had heard rumbling about the clash between Boomers and Millenials but...

I walked into the dressing room at TJMax yesterday afternoon in search of one or two new sweaters to replace several in my closet that...

People is not where I'd look to find the secret to aging. Actually, I'm not sure where I'd look but definitely not in the gossip rag...

I hadn't seen my sister in two years--two years until last week. She lives in Ohio; I live in Illinois. It's a six-hour drive, if not...

My husband and I will never interview to be contestants on NBC's "The Amazing Race." You probably know the drill: a bevy of couples...

Ruth, the second youngest of six children, was born in 1897 in Sault St. Marie, Michigan. She was forty-eight by the time I arrived less...

I’m a retired makeup artist and green beauty expert who’s turning 70 on my next birthday. I’ve witnessed my skin change over the years (Have

If you're like me, you've pulled the plug on a number of friends over the years. You decided that those connections were just not worth...

Yep, talking about boobs and annual mammograms. Today was this year's screening. I've had two scares: one about 25 years ago when we...

Okay, so it's dreary. No sun. Good possibility of rain. BUT, I don't have to wear a coat or a jacket to venture outside. My garden,...

I saw this interview on Facebook the other day. I was so inspired! The dancer and choreographer Marge Champion turned 100. The...

I'm a parasomniac. (At least, that's what two sleep specialists have diagnosed.) I've joined the ranks of sleep walkers, people beset...

Hi. My name is Sheila. I’m 69 years old and I still care about how I look. I don’t think I’m alone on this. But if you pay attention...

There was no violence at Woodstock. No fighting, no attacks, no killing. (There was, if I recall, some bad acid.) It was a celebration of

An expert on skin care I am not. Like most older women, I've tried a smorgasbord of products over the years. Expensive moisturizers,...

Yep. That's right: we get to bitch and moan about our aches and pains, our bodies--even our partners. We have 60 seconds. Then time is...

Maybe you're someone who followed your ob/gyn's suggestion and went straight to your pharmacist to fill a script for one of the existing...