Candace Karu can be found at her website of the same name. This post was originally featured there. Aging is weird. It happens in fits and starts. You go along for weeks or months, looking pretty good, feeling kind of fabulous about yourself and – boom- one day you wake up and something has gone …
Beauty
The photo was originally about the boots—my first pair of boots. It turned out to be a photo about embracing my life as a single woman, at age 62. Me as a vibrant, sexual, mostly confident woman. Me. Learning to be unapologetic and comfortable with all the aspects of my life. I spent most of July in Santa …
Most of the time, I feel like my spirit is younger than my physical age. My body, however, insists on exhibiting signs of middle age no matter how youthful I feel at heart. I have been getting my brows waxed for years; it’s more effective and quicker than tweezing. That didn’t feel like a concession to …
Since I crossed into age 50 twelve years ago I have turned time and again to four different books about beauty, fashion and style for midlife and beyond. Honestly, I have read many more than the four. But those four are the ones which resonate and draw me back for refresher reads. One of those …
It’s finally the week for BAM in Las Vegas! BAM is the Bloggers At Midlife Conference that so many of us have anticipated all year. Though I realize some of you are not able to attend, I hope that this post will be helpful as you prepare for other business conferences. Whenever I attend a conference, confidence …