It has taken me years, but I finally "get" that there are some things I cannot fix. And that's okay. I can't find a wife for my...

I don't know about you, but I find myself cheering out loud whenever I hear about a woman in her 90s or older who dies. Of course, I'm...

Catchy name for a website dedicated to seniors--even for those of us not yet gray. Well, not gray enough that hair dye doesn't still do...

Well, that's not really what my husband wanted, but that is what he said. "I don't want to go into one of those homes." "If my memory...

After paying a whopping income tax bill that pulverized my bank account and any hope of buying a new office desk, I was left with no...

On Saturday, my husband and I stopped in to a local gallery where an accomplished painter and an acquaintance was having a two-person...

I used to relish what I interpreted as a compliment when someone looked at my driver's license and said, "No, way!  You don't look your...

I'm always amazed that a few times every year, I dream about the boy I loved more than five decades ago and how he broke my heart when he...

Not long ago, I mentioned to my younger and only sister that I was aging exactly like our mother. I seemed a clone of her older self...

"She wore an itsy bitsy Teenie weenie Yellow polka Dot bikini . . . " I love to swim. Always have. Growing up on a spring fed lake in...

"When Sleeping Women Wake, Mountains Move" - Chinese Proverb As a writer, I don't see my life as before retirement and after. I have...

My friend, Ann (who, by the way, I hadn't seen or talked to in at least three decades) and I reconnected at a 50th reunion with a group...

I have spent the last year tweeting, posting, blogging, and generally talking about nothing else but teen suicide. I was determined to...

What do you get when you play baseball in your dreams, fall out of bed and crash the side of your head on cold, unforgiving Mexican tile?...

I'm one of the lucky ones who gets to escape Chicago winters for the warmer, sunny climes of San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. You may have...

It's one of those days when I need some support. That nasty tendency to see all the flaws of aging has sneaked back around and I so...

I was the little girl with a knot in her stomach the size of my beloved Thom McCann Cha-Cha boots ("The boots with a beat") who slunk...

What if I told you that women seventy+ are enjoying the happiest time of their lives? Sounds like someone from another planet. Right? ...

I hear tell that a lot of close ties have been broken lately over politics. Nope, I'm not going there. Where I am going is the more...

A therapist asked me if I'd ever thought of how my time in the womb and ride down the birth control might have affected me throughout the...