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 …
Before and after Katrina is how we mark time down here in Louisiana. We just passed the 8-year anniversary of that milestone hurricane. The lives we knew were washed away when the levees broke. For my high school friend, Karen and I, it marked the washing away of our long-term marriages. My husband moved out the week …
In my forties, I could finally afford to purchase the expensive footwear I had always envied: classic Dior black pumps, Coach tennis shoes and jeweled strappy sandals. But nowadays, comfort overrules my desire to be a fashion plate and one pair of low-heeled pumps, white sneakers and flats gets me from church to the gym. …
And miles to go before I sleep… Robert Frost I’m wide-awake at 2AM Loud thoughts are dancing inside my head Now I understand what Robert Frost meant. My thoughts won’t permit me to sleep And yet I am tired. I need to write About a journey About our journey. Life is made up of many …
Welcome to Midlife Boulevard – the place for women at midlife. Isn’t being in the middle of things always the most exciting place to be? In the middle of a conversation, in the middle of a party, in the middle of a great book, a wonderful movie, a delicious meal – on the edge of …