Am I feeling too good after the race? Over 10,000 runners entered the Des Moines marathon, half marathon or 5k, and most of them ran it yesterday. Some runners are ecstatic because they finished their first long race or set a new personal record. Some are sad because they didn’t finish the race or ran …
Health and Wellness
“When my surgeon told me two years ago that I had cancer in my left breast, I started to feel like I was on borrowed time,” says Laurel Kamen, now the co-founder of the Alloro Collection, a fashion brand for women who are suffering or have survived breast cancer. Laurel had already fought (and won!) …
Do you ever wonder what you will look like when you are eighty, ninety, or even a hundred? I just don’t. I have never stared into the mirror and tried to see the woman in my future. I am a live-one-day-at-a-time kind of girl. Since I turned fifty, I have started each day with a …
I hate the phrase, “aging gracefully.” In fact, I hate the whole idea of aging—especially when it comes to my joint pain. Everywhere I can, I fight aging. I’m my late 50s. I have brown hair, use lots of anti-aging facial creams, am a proponent of plastic surgery and keep up with the latest …
Ladies, we deserve to have the best sex of our lives—now! Even better, it’s completely doable (pun intended). During our menopausal years, our sex lives have so much from which they can benefit: a strong sense of self, deep relationships, and bodies we actually know how to use! For women, sex is like a fine …