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Is It Time to Face and Purge Your Closet?

You can learn a lot about a woman by looking at her closet. Some closet spaces are tidy and arranged by color while others are in ...

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13 Best Low Maintenance Haircuts for Women Over 50

When it comes to hair, maintaining a stylish yet low maintenance haircut becomes a top priority for many of us women over 50. Gone...

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Why Some Women Find Love and Other Women Don’t

Do you ever notice how some women in our age group attract and date wonderful men while others struggle to meet any men at all? Th...

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What’s the Difference Between Emotional Eating, Eating Addiction and Food Addiction?

Food is not just fuel for our bodies; it often serves as a source of comfort, pleasure, and even emotional support. However, when ...

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How to Gain Financial Empowerment in Your 60s

Your 60s are a time of tremendous change. You may be preparing for retirement, entering retirement or recently retired. It’s a tim...

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Protecting Your Heart on the Road: The Scenic Route Solution

When it comes to staying healthy on a road trip, many people focus on diet and exercise. However, the sudden cardiac death of my h...

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Vitality Domain #4 – Friendship and Love are Good for Your Health

Loneliness is associated with early mortality. Loneliness is not about feeling isolated socially; it is a deep feeling of being al...

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Change Your Thinking… About Drinking

We’ve been brainwashed for decades into believing that alcohol is fun, essential for socializing and will help us to relax. The co...

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Does Being a Grandma Change How You Look at Your Own Grandmother?

Now we are 60 (as A.A. Milne of Christopher Robin fame might have said), we are of an age to think about grandmothers. Perhaps you...

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How to Create Ribbon Wreaths

Have you ever seen those gorgeous ribbon wreaths that pop up in elegant department stores for the holidays? Beautiful though they ...

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It’s Simple to Be Healthy in Old Age

This blog is about my experiences and practices because this is what I know. I feel happy, positive and vibrant at 89. Do you feel...

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7 Ideas for Enjoying Life Together After Retirement

It all happened so quickly, where did the years go? But here we are, the first few years into retirement already. So much to be th...

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Manage a Challenging but Fulfilled Life Outside Your Comfort Zone with These 3 Strategies

I just returned from a three-week trip to northern Spain and Portugal. Every day, every minute, I was living outside my comfort zo...

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10 Unique Travel Destinations USA: Hidden Gems for Women Over 50

Are you ready to embark on a journey of discovery and adventure? Whether you're a seasoned traveler or someone seeking new horizon...

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Protect Your Medicare Benefits with a Medicare Set-Aside

Medicare is an essential part of healthcare for many older individuals in the United States. When you've suffered an injury due to...

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How to Re-Imagine a New Life Story and Regenerate Yourself After 60

I am at the stage in my life where I find myself reflecting on who I was and wondering who I desire to become. I have changed so m...

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Retirement Goals Fading Away? Here’s How to Get Back on Track

Do you reach the middle of the year and wonder what happened in the past six months? It can be a shock to discover that your resol...

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Have You Become the Designated Family Photo Historian?

Becoming the family photo historian can come about in different ways: you may have volunteered for the position, or, like me, you ...

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Man Sale: It’s All About Perspective

I am curious what caught your eye on this article, the picture or the title? We’ve heard that a picture is worth a thousand words,...

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5 Pathways to Your Desires After 60

Centuries ago, Persian poet Rumi famously wrote, “What you seek is seeking you.” Many have interpreted this quote to mean our desi...

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What to Wear This Summer, How to Comfort a Friend, and Other Reader Questions

We’ve answered 24 reader questions in the past, and today we’d love to do it again. Here are three more, including how to refresh...

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A Trick for Better Summer Salads

This time of year, I’m so tempted to just throw a simple green salad tossed with lemon juice and olive oil alongside whatever mai...

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What Teenager Scenes Do You Love?

Have you seen the short film about teenage heartbreak by CoJ alum Stella Blackmon? It’s beautiful and inspired me to ask: what ar...

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Taylor Swaim’s Lovely 1800s House in Connecticut

After living in a Brooklyn walkup for 10 years, Taylor Swaim — who is the head of social for fragrance brands Mizensir Parfums an...

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Easy Summer Bucket List

What would you add? By the lovely Grace Farris. P.S. Summer clothes and simple pleasures.… Read more The post Easy Summer Bucke...

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Have a Lovely (Long) Weekend.

What are you up to this weekend? Both boys are traveling, and I miss them so much! I find that to be the hardest part of divorce ...

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3 Powerful Ways to Write Your Life Story

If I were to title this decade of my sixties, I would call it Reclamation. These years continue to reveal themselves as a time of ...

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5 Steps to Take Control of Your Medical Costs in Your 60s

I’ve always been fit. Even well into my 50s I felt physically invincible. I could still jump out of bed for a morning run, followe...

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5 Tips for Walking Well: Feel More Confident Walking Today (VIDEO TIPS)

Would you like to feel more confident when you’re out walking? Have you started noticing your balance when you walk? Do you someti...

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Multigenerational Travel: Creating Unforgettable Experiences for the Whole Family

Imagine a holiday filled with laughter, shared stories, and endless love, as multiple generations of your family come together to ...

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This Father’s Day, Remember Your Dad with All 5 Senses

When I taught writing, I asked my students to describe their parents by using the five senses. Gosh, does this writing exercise el...

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When Should You Give Away Your Jewelry? (VIDEO)

My mother had a fabulous collection of what is now called “fashion” jewelry, much of it acquired through her sister’s costume jewe...

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Is Needle Felting on Your Hobbies Bucket List? Let’s Get Started!

Needle felting (also called ‘dry felting’) is a fun way to create creatures, people, pictures – and even jewellery – from wool fib...

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How to Start Squash Without Looking Like an Idiot

Twenty years ago, Forbes rated squash as the world’s best sport for fitness, ahead of rowing, rock climbing, cross-country skiing ...

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The Power of Going Within

The process of life has a way of changing how we see ourselves. Women, in order to survive the journey, have to constantly adjust ...

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How to Help Your Marriage Survive Through to Retirement

You've probably read professional relationship advice about how to survive with your partner into retirement. That always comes wi...

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Fulfilling a Dream: I Published a Book!

It was a dream. Maybe deep down I’ve always wanted to share my truths with others? What does “sharing one’s truth” even mean? It s...

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Follow These 6 Basic Rules to Improve Your Health

Have you spent years trying to improve your health? Have you tried all of the latest fad diets and exercise programs to date? Do y...

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What You Learn When You Trust Your Gut: Exploring The Power of Intuition

Many unexpected gifts come at midlife and beyond, and one of them is a deeper trust in ourselves. After all, we've been living in ...

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5 Ways to Express Confidence in the Way You Dress

As women get older, society tries to sap them of their confidence. Unfair! If you’re a confident woman in your 40s, 50s, 60s – rea...

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