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The Chaotic Mind – A relationship between clutter and trauma.
I love shows like Hoarders! I like to see progress and Hoarders usually supplies that, after a grueling episode featuring a filthy, cluttered home, lots of counsel and cleanup for the inhabitant. The entire chaotic situation wraps up neatly in a couple of hours. Might...
I FOUND A FIX FOR MY SAGGY NECK!
And it's not surgery! MY SAGGY TURKEY NECK MADE ME CRY! A saggy turkey neck announces to the world that I'm not a spring chicken anymore! It's a misfortune of aging that can't be hidden with makeup or clothing. What causes our necks to betray us? The muscles in our...
A New Chapter in the Country Air
Jane In the heart of a bustling metropolis stood a modest apartment where Jane, a middle-aged woman, resided. Her days were spent amidst the cacophony of urban life, yet her heart yearned for something more—a life surrounded by the tranquility of nature. Despite her...
It’s Hell to Get Old – Especially if You’re a Woman!
The Me-Too Movement Left This Lady on the Shelf Old age, illness and poverty can be an ongoing assault with no way out. Being poor is only romantic in old books. Women are living longer than men, but they are not living better. Research suggests that women are...

ABOUT MY BOOKS

I have been writing this blog for about six years, but some readers may not know me. Brief history: I have been employed as a teacher and a musician, have worked in the field of nursing, and am currently a freelance writer and author in Scottsdale, Arizona. All my...

VOICES IN MY HEAD

Default position, anyone? As usual, my default position to making serious changes in my life was: It’s just too much! Maybe I can’t really change it, anyway. Perhaps as a financially insecure, single woman of 58, I should just ‘settle for what I’ve got’. But, should I...

THE MARRIAGE BUS BREAKS DOWN FOR OLDER WOMEN

THE MARRIAGE BUS BREAKS DOWN FOR OLDER WOMEN

Older women are more likely to be left on the curb. Older women are more likely to miss the marriage bus or get left on the curb. Do they even need marriage anymore? That's a good question. Pew Research Center says: “While about three-in-ten U.S. adults (31%) say they...

SURVIVAL SECRETS, ANYONE?

Survival Secrets, anyone? Okay, I admit it. I was a woman 58 years old and going nowhere. Going nowhere fast, in my estimation, because I’d already lived over half my life. I’d lived long enough for a number of things to go awry. Survival secrets, anyone? One panicky...

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