I watched my husband put together our new Ikea bed in his boxer shorts and nothing else. I found it amusing to watch him bend and reach in his 56-year-old body. Everything is pretty much the same. A little more wrinkled, stretched, and sagging, but so is my body. I…

This is all bull shit. I nod my head in agreement and listen to a co-worker rant about how stupid everything is. I couldn’t agree more and am so excited she has figured this out in her 30’s, while it took me COVID and hitting 50 before I did. As…

During my years raising kids and in the area of the world I lived in we had stay at home moms, moms with mom jobs, moms who worked full time, and somewhere out in the big city were career women. …

It’s one of those things we say that doesn’t seem like a big deal. You’re like your dad. You’re just like aunt so and so. You are so much like me. We see similarities in our kids that remind us of other people. …

Why Definitions Are Important — Women are good at making blanket statements for other women. They are also good at listening to them, accepting them at face value, and using them as a standard for living. Elementary school teachers told us to memorize definitions, but they failed to teach us why they are important…

What is normal and how do we define it? We start off in life mimicking much of what we were taught and following the example of those we are surrounded by. If that doesn’t create a reality we are willing to live with how do we define a new one? …

Something induces the feeling of I can’t and if you’ve experienced it you understand the impact it has on your ability to accomplish the simplest things. You might have been able to multi-task before, but now doing things like waking up, taking a shower, and going to work are monumental. …

Taking a paid internship at the age of 48 was not my proudest moment, but it taught me critical lessons I needed to successfully navigate a career change and be a healthier person. The internship came about two years into my career transition and was the last place I wanted…

I look back and wonder what we could have done in the beginning to prevent ourselves unnecessary turmoil. The simple answer is we shouldn’t have gotten married in the first place. By all rights we were doing it all wrong. We didn’t have an education, skills, good jobs, our own…