MY NEW HOME As I sit on my back patio and overlook the magestic mountains and stupendous scenery (you have to be here to fully experience...

Dress Up Just Because So, the other day I continued to pamper myself at new favorite place in Mesquite - The View Salon. I am able to get...

wee hours in the morning January 2, 2025 So, I literally started the new year with a bang! On January 2, Jim and I left our treasured...

What things do I have to be thankful for? Isn't this the question posed to us as we prepare to indulge in our Thanksgiving feast? Well, I...

Weaving our way through life is anything but easy! Just when we think we have the universe figured out, WHAM! We get blindsided! Aging...

In just a few days, I will begin a new chapter in my life. Once again, I have been reflecting on the past year of my life. And oh, what...

I can't believe it has been over three months since I have been writing! Yesterday morning I woke up as if I had been in an ongoing coma....

Today I have the pleasure of celebrating a dear friend's birthday. Now, I have only known Kris for a year, but already she has claimed a...

The Japanese have a word for a sense of purpose "ikigai." (pronounced ick-ee-guy). The meaning is 'that which gives your life purpose.' ...

What are you waiting for? I am aware of the number of years, months, days stretching ahead of me, far less than those behind me. I know...

You are here in the present moment. You can actually point to and feel exactly where you are. Visual depictions of destination points...

Today I beginning the seventy-fourth chapter of my life. Yesterday I recaptured my adventures in my seventy-third chapter before I closed...

If there's one thing I have learned as I got older, is that I will continue to make mistakes. There is no getting around it. Because I am...

I have been on several podcasts lately talking about how to thrive after retirement. How do I condense my ideas into a twenty-minute...

For the past month, I have been quite ill, bedridden with the flu which did not want to leave me! I tried everything from hot tea,...

Sticking to a routine is not easy. Believe me, I have faltered so many times! But there is that voice inside of me that tells me I can't...

Since I started this blog I reconnected with a group of five women who have retired within the past five years. They have shared with me...

Dis-ease is a situation of unease; it is a body that is not at ease, which means that the body is not within proper function. Now, most...

The other day I was walking with my friend when the conversation turned to all the evils in our world, from rigged elections to...

The first book on my list of must-haves is 'The Daily Stoic' by Ryan Holiday: 366 meditations on perseverance, and the art of living. The...