01. Love Your Body Now Project, Revisited

A few years ago, my twin sister, Lisanne, and I participated in the Love Your Body Now Project, the brainchild of writer, actress, blogger, and life coach, Shannon Bradley-Colleary.

02. Thong Worthy

Lately, I’ve been feeling a little smug about how well I’m dealing with the aging process. My encroaching wrinkles give me character. I embrace my faulty memory. And my crotchety, do-it-my-way-or-not-at-all attitude has a certain charm. Aging and I have become buddies.

Then, the other day, I decided to wear a thong. Read more →

03. Ma’am

Recently, a twentysomething girl on an airplane called me “Ma’am.”

I was on my way to Chicago for a reunion with a wonderful group of women who dubbed themselves the Dowagers years ago in graduate school, when they were far from dowagers. I was more of a dowager than they were. I was one of the oldest in our program, though at the time I was only in my thirties.

Still, no one called me “Ma’am” back then. Read more →