PinnedMember-onlyAre you ready to write your memoir or life story?“When you write a memoir, there’s no place to hide.” Throughout my crazy life, my friends have told me I should write my memoir. Not to offend, and in the interest of total transparency, I may have left out the juicy stuff! In 2008 I was given six months to live. LOVE the Beat Goes On, my first memoir, took me several years before I could come to terms…Inspirational3 min readInspirational3 min read
Aug 16, 2022Member-onlyThis can’t be happening to me!You know how you wake up one morning and receive THAT email? Then the day goes from bad to worse…Yesterday was that day. Actually, all week has been a series of WTF days! Okay, I’ve had a partial rant. Now let me explain. So, yesterday I decided to do some…3 min read3 min read
Nov 24, 2021Member-onlyYou will get there whether you like it or not!What’s the secret to being WOW? (A Wise Older Woman) #1 for me is to maintain a positive attitude. There’s a quote out there: “We can’t always control the things that happen to us, but we can control how we react.” I try to stop and think before I say something or do something I might regret. Our spoken words are powerful. Choose them wisely. #2 Put life in perspective. Don’t take it personally…Life Lessons4 min readLife Lessons4 min read
Nov 21, 2021Member-onlyHave you ever been thankful for being sick?I’ve had major health challenges in my lifetime. In 2008 I was given 6 months to live. You would think that would be enough to frighten me. I refused to accept my diagnosis. Even though the doctors said there was no cure for my heart condition. When I wrote my first memoir LOVE the Beat Goes On, I…Mental Health5 min readMental Health5 min read
Nov 17, 2021Member-onlyWhere do bad girls go when they die?A young woman had a life-long dream to become a Catholic nun. She entered the convent at the age of eighteen. The life she longed for was nothing like the life she led. Scrubbing floors, and cleaning toilets somehow didn’t satisfy her desire to save the world. Six months later she left. Her high-school boyfriend had waited for her to come to…Inspiration2 min readInspiration2 min read
Nov 1, 2021Member-onlyFEAR…My Mind has been on my mind When the pandemic started, I self-quarantined because of my age. I was once given 6 months to live in 2008 for incurable heart disease. So I wasn’t taking any chances. I remember sitting on my tiny patio in Istanbul watching the ships move along the Bosphorus Strait. My boyfriend had just delivered cases of water and diet cokes to me…Covid-192 min readCovid-192 min read
Sep 19, 2021Member-onlyMy son says I have no plan!It’s his birthday Sunday, and my last conversation with him was ‘challenging.’ I shared the highlights with my ex-husband — we are good friends — but my son had got to him first! My ex just laughed. I think that is so unfair. I mean, I don’t expect to live…Aging4 min readAging4 min read
Sep 18, 2021Member-onlyWe only live once, but if we do it right…When I was a little girl, all I wanted to do was become a Catholic nun. I grew up in a military family. My Dad was a genius — my opinion — but I recall he was honored for the math competitions he entered, and yet he was a Sargeant…Inspiration3 min readInspiration3 min read
Sep 15, 2021Member-onlyDeath is the easy part. Dying is the challenge.When we are young, we want to be older. We want to get our driver’s license, date boys, or girls, have a career, maybe marry, have children, travel…be OLDER so we can do all these things. I will turn 75 in March. So for some crazy reason, I find myself thinking about age far too much. Maybe it’s because…Aging2 min readAging2 min read
Aug 21, 2021Member-onlyI’m afraid to open it.It’s ten years later. I think if I was going to be found, or abused in some way, or even eliminated for what I might know, it would have happened by now. I even moved to a different country, on a different continent. Do you suppose I will ever feel totally safe? But let…Death5 min readDeath5 min read