As in my previous blog post, I am rethinking my appearance which has devolved during nearly three months of being housebound. A bad fall has resulted in my spending most of my time lately in hospitals and at home in bed. I am now more mobile but still […]
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When is a good time to stop colouring your hair? It’s not a trick question, even though it sounds a lot like “Have you stopped beating your wife yet?” You could answer that you shouldn’t even have started colouring your hair, but it’s too late for many of […]
It happened again. Someone stopped me in the street and asked me what I use under my eyes. I’m starting to think my hard-earned wrinkles of experience are magnets for sales people with magic creams to sell. The last time this happened, the magic was supposed to be […]
There’s nothing funny about memory loss, except maybe this. About a month ago I got an email from the Canadian Association of Retired Persons that said: CONCERNED ABOUT YOUR MEMORY? Take the free online brain health assessment validated by scientists from Baycrest, a world leader in the research […]
Listen up, media people. We want more women in our entertainment. Young women, old women, middle-aged women, gay, straight, and transgender women. We want to see people like ourselves. We want to see our mothers and grandmothers, sisters, aunts, daughters, cousins, and nieces. We want them beautiful, plain, […]
I am the kind of person who straightens misaligned pictures and who picks up litter. I notice a lot of things that other people miss, and sometimes I even pride myself on it, so it comes as a disappointment to realize that I am failing to notice some […]
I like sitting at the back of a bus. The seats there are slightly raised, so I have a better view of the scenery as we pass. That makes it easier for me to know when I have to ring the bell to get off at my stop. […]
I am a snowbird who travels south for the winter. When I get there I have a bird of paradise plant on my patio.
