The Today Show: How Gen Xers are reinventing forty – Do you like what it’s become?
August 1, 2011 by editor
Filed under On Health & Beauty, On Life
Has the “40 is over-the-hill” mantra been replaced by an image of a 21st century “super-40 woman” replete with magnificent body, burgeoning career and unparalleled fabulousness? Because if it is, I am so not living up to it and I’m not sure I’ll ever be able to.
Backspace. Delete. Do-over…9 months later
‘m grateful for backspace and delete keys. God knows I use them both every day. But while even I would call a do-over on some of my stupider younger woman moves, I think that just as in writing, overusing the backspace key can stifle us, causing us to constantly edit and over-analyze ourselves…
Dear Twenty-something me
A WAF reader writes a poignant letter to her twenty-something self. It outlines a future battle with Lupus, a father who is very sick and making $6.50 an hour full-time, supporting a husband who’s getting his Associates Degree. But from all of that emerges a woman at forty who’s stronger than she ever knew she could be…
My $25-a-week clean eating experiment a year later
June 29, 2011 by Grace
Filed under Fit at Forty, Just Me, On Health & Beauty, On Life
A year after test-driving my clean eating experiment I can say that I’ve adopted clean eating as a way of life. Really, it’s a return to how my parents and grandparents used to cook and eat before advertising and big business began convincing people that they had it all wrong.
Kalin’s Chronicles: Literary Tours
June 1, 2011 by Kalin
Filed under Kalin's Chronicles, On Travel & Leisure
Tourism boards are banking on “literary tours” that highlight the sites of popular books and movies. One of my favorite literary tours is Midnight in the Garden of Good & Evil in Savannah, Georgia…
