10 Ways To Lie To Your Husband About How Much You Spend
This Old Thing? When you wear it for the first time, and he asks if it's new, look slightly dismayed and reply, "I've worn this before and you never remember it....
Vikki Claflin
Nice To Meet You. Who Does Your Botox?
As my friends choked on their wine in unrestrained merriment and I desperately searched my brain for how this might even be a SHRED of a compliment......
7 Wishes That No Longer Work After 50
Alcohol shooters on girls' night out. These make us feel super bad-ass, liberated, and uninhibited. But are no longer on our wish list....
15 Things I Don’t Feel Guilty About Any More
Not tipping for bad service, buying a two-seater red convertible....I'm old enough not to feel guilty about this and way more......
Midlife BFFs. One is Good. A Tribe is Better
Not all BFFs are created equal. By the time we're 50-something, many of us have several best friends, with different personalities......
10 Pretty Little Lies We Tell Our Husband About What We Bought
LOL. 10 hilarious "lies" to tell your husband to avoid spending confrontation. ...
Sexy After 60? Nine Tips to Get You There Fast
The key is to celebrate your sexiness now. At whatever age you are, get into it and have fun.
Here's the plan.......
Why Women Cheat
Women need connection. We need to be important to you. Otherwise, we start fantasizing about the cute UPS guy. ...
11 Ways Men Drive Women Crazy
Very few women feel that watching us clean and giving us "the wink" while you tell us we can "do the dishes later" counts as foreplay.....
7 Reasons Why We Sleep In Separate Beds
Culturally, we are expected to sleep together as a symbol of our love and desire for intimacy with our spouse. Horse hooey....
6 Common Marriage Truisms…That Are Not Really True
Is he a triathlete who starts every day with a kale smoothie and 37 vitamins, while you think a pitcher of coffee and a stale Krispy Kreme doughnut constitutes breakfast?...
Couples Who Shop Together…Are Out Of Their Freakin’ Minds
"Seriously?? You want to go with me?"...He grinned, "Sure. How bad can it be?" Let me count the ways....
Confessions Of A Beauty Product Junkie
My bathroom looks like a Nordstrom Cosmetic Department trunk show...but these are products I'm NOT willing to try....
Midlife BFFs: One Is Good, A Tribe Is Better
We're there for each other, and we speak the same language....
All I Wanted Was To Lose 10 Pounds And Now I Regret It
I always wanted to be skinnier and now I'm so thin, I'm frail looking....my goal is to gain 20 lbs....
13 Things Grandparents Get To Do But Parents Don’t
We are not responsible for the way they turn out. That's the parents' job, and we've already done that. Now it's just fun....
Boomer Beauty, Made Simple…Part 4
It seems that women across the country are traumatized by thinning head hair that has seemingly migrated to their chins, cheeks, and upper lips. ...
Spectacular (But Funny) Mom Fails
You straddled him on a rocking horse?? He was just circumcised three hours ago! What the hell were you thinking??" ...
“I Cannot Tell a Lie,” Said No Wife…Ever
"No thanks. I don't want dessert..."...
More Brilliant Boomer Beauty Advice
You can wear red lipstick until you die of old age, and then take it with you to the afterlife. But you might consider softening the look at little....
Vikki Claflin
Vikki Claflin is an international best-selling author, humor blogger, and inspirational public speaker. She lives in Hood River, OR, where she writes the award-winning humor blog Laugh Lines: Humorous Thoughts and Advice on How to Live Young When You're...well...Not, where she doles out irreverent advice on marriage, offers humorous how-to lists galore, and shares her most embarrassing midlife moments. Vikki has been featured on the Michael J. Fox Foundation website, Erma Bombeck's Writer's Workshop, The Huffington Post, Scary Mommy, Midlife Boulevard, Better After 50, and Funny Times Magazine. She received a BlogHer14 "Voices of the Year" Humor award, and has been a featured guest on over 40 radio programs throughout the US and Canada. Chin Hairs & Back Fat is Vikki's third book. Shake, Rattle & Roll With It: Living & Laughing with Parkinson's, and Who Left the Cork Out of My Lunch? Middle Age, Modern Marriage & Other Complications are all available at amazon.com. You can find more of Vikki’s writing at laugh-lines.net