9 Basics for a Budget Friendly Birthday Bash

August 8, 2011 by  
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In the spirit of creating a back-to-basics bash you won’t forget consumer and money-saving expert Andrea Woroch offers the following nine tips…

The Today Show: How Gen Xers are reinventing forty – Do you like what it’s become?

August 1, 2011 by  
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Has the “40 is over-the-hill” mantra been replaced by an image of a 21st century “super-40 woman” replete with magnificent body, burgeoning career and unparalleled fabulousness?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

July 25, 2011 by  
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‘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

July 12, 2011 by  
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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  
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.

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