What Do You Call a Memoir in 18 Words? A Minimoir.
Eighteen words to capture a life. Our new Minimoir™ Challenge proves small stories can reveal the biggest truths. As we age, and in this age of short attention spans, I wondered if I could write my memoir in 18 words. I called it a minimoir. Why 18? The number 18 is the numerical value of the […]
Jamie Lee Curtis: The Reign of Defiance
From scream queen to truth-teller, Curtis has turned sobriety, gray hair, and rage into power. It was the 2023 Oscars. Jamie Lee Curtis at 64, silver-white cropped hair blazing like a battle flag. Thankful, manic, sobbing into the mic as only she could. Statue in hand. The room roars. And every woman over 50 thinks […]
Reddit Gave Me Community, Chaos, and 47 Ways to Reuse a Ziploc
I was searching for a lasagna recipe. Two hours later, I was invested in a stranger’s wedding shrimp trauma. I’m a middle-aged woman with a Target Circle membership and a 9 p.m. bedtime. How did I end up emotionally invested in a fight about mushrooms? It started innocently enough. I was Googling “easy vegan dinners […]
The Quiet Power of Dressing With Intention
What Europeans Get Right About Fashion, Comfort, and Feminism I recently came home from nearly three weeks in Europe with my sister. Everything from the people to the food to the history amazed us—as did the fashion. The women seemed to dress effortlessly and elegantly in a way that didn’t ask for attention but somehow […]
Touched by Time: I Went to See Cave Art. I Left With a New Understanding of Myself
In the depths of a French cave, 17,000-year-old drawings cracked open something I didn’t know I was missing. Spiritual is not a word people commonly associate with me. My sister in New York is the one who channels and manifests. I’ve long said the wrong sister moved to California. No personal God or goddesses for […]
She Didn’t Just Move to Paradise. She Bottled It.
Beauty, Scent, and the Courage to Start Over When Isabelle Ramsay-Brackstone lost her husband, she didn’t flee Bermuda—she stayed, turned grief into craft, and built a perfumery that captures the scent of a life fully lived. Standing in Isabelle Ramsay-Brackstone’s tropical walled garden, surrounded by oleander, passion flower, jasmine, and more, it was easy to […]
The Woman Who Thought She Had Everything
Turns Out, Having It All Isn’t the Goal. Knowing What’s Worth Having? That’s the Win. At 30, I thought I had everything: a job, health insurance, and a fiancé. Looking back, that was just the “starter pack” women were promised in our youth. I followed the rules, ticked the boxes, and believed I was doing […]
You Call It Smut, I Call It Self-Care: The Real Power of a Sexy Beach Read
Because turning pages that turn you on is more than indulgent—it’s liberating. I was celebrating the start of summer poolside in Key West when I hit the good part of my beach book. You know the part I mean—the hot scene that gets the heroine going and then works its magic on you as well. […]
Call Me Anything But Grandma: Choosing a Grandma Name That Actually Fits
Becoming a Grandma Isn’t What It Used to Be—And Neither Are the Names Not “girl.” Not “sweetie.” And maybe not “Nana,” either. When I became a grandmother, I realized this might be the first time in my life I got to choose the grandma name everyone would call me—without anyone’s input but my own. Not […]
Still Pulling G’s: Patty Wagstaff on Flying, Aging, and Staying the Course
Patty Wagstaff doesn’t care if you think she’s too old to fly upside down. At 73, the aerobatic legend is still defying gravity—and everyone’s expectations. As the first woman to win the U.S. National Aerobatic Championship, she broke into a male-dominated world and never looked back—flying on her own terms. Patty Wagstaff: The Sky Is […]
Extreme Senior Bingo: The Grit, the Glory, and the Battle for the Prize
At first glance it appears to be innocent enough, just a group of seniors gathered and tucked under rec room tables. But peel back the layers of blankets, ointment, and liver spots, and you’ll find they’re waging a silent war with the emotional arc of a Scorsese film—compete with grudges, glory, and arthritic grasps for […]
Why Midlife Women Still Love Bridget Jones
I didn’t want to see a sad Bridget Jones. I wasn’t ready to watch my fave frazzled fictional friend become a grieving widow with two kids and a stack of unopened sympathy cards, which is where she’s at when Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy—now streaming on Peacock—opens. Despite all her diary confessions and […]
