I realized when you look at your mother, you are looking at the purest love you will ever know.

~Mitch Albom

The mother/daughter bond is complex and it changes with each stage of life. Over the...

I'm two finger typing. 

Normally I'm a fast typist. I credit that to my years of musical training on the accordion. (To be clear it wasn't my choice, I wanted piano lessons. I have German...

Amanda confided "I haven't felt *pretty* since the lockdown, I'm losing my mojo and my stay-at-home-style is schlumpy."

Catherine is currently doing a closet edit. She's bemoaned the fact that...

I'm more than a wee-bit-weary of all the COVID-19 transformational nonsense that *on-line motivational gurus* are preaching to have me accomplish unreasonably uber-ambitious goals, so I can carpe...

You keep going.

Because your uncommon efforts lead to uncommon strength in uncommon times.

You are stronger and more important than you know.

First went the hand sanitizer, disinfectants and toilet paper. Now hair clippers and hair dye are flying off the shelves.

I've seen more than a few posts on Facebook by women who are becoming...

What day is it? What week is it?

It's been a while since I've written to you. I don't even know what to say in these tumultuous times. 

I want to reach out to you as one woman to another, to...

Life is too important to be taken seriously.

~Oscar Wilde

The first time it happened I was horrified.

Within a few days of my 55th birthday, I stopped at a corner drug store to pick up some...

Every person has their own big questions that no one else can answer.
~Oprah

To do or to not to do? That is THE question.

(With a nod of inspiration from an opening phrase of a...

Yesterday I witnessed a visceral connection among women that touched me in a profound way. 

I want to share it with you.

I need to share it with you.

It's important for all of us to understand...