A Love Story....
I first met Carl at Sunday go-to-meeting in 1959, three months before my eighteenth birthday. I saw him stub a cigarette outside his car. Su...
This summer there was a buzz about "Coastal Grandmothers." The idea of living a more relaxed, simpler lifestyle was trending and kids aspiring to live life li...
#1 No More Mystery Bottles While Traveling
The 8 hour flight is behind me, I’m off the tarmac, I’ve collected my suitcase, and all that’s lost is my ability to...
We were laughing so hard we could barely stay on our bikes. Ellie and I were circling the island training for the PMC (raising money for the Dana Farber Cancer ...
Oscar De La Renta brought us the Maxi dresses in the late 60's and we wore them into the 70's. And now they are back in style.
We love Maxi dresses because they are easy to wear in the heat and are great for casual for dress up as well. They look great with flip flops, flats and heels. Here's some great options. Please share with us your favorite Maxi dress on Instagram - we would love to see what you picked to wear this summer. Take a picture of you in your Maxi and send to editor@betterafter50.com to post and share for a BA50 reader fashion round up....
For all you Catherine O'Hara fans, you will love this Vogue look at her fashion from Beetle Juice to Schitt's Creek. But know that Catherine is always a natural. "I don’t want to get surgery and I don’t want to get needles, other than acupuncture needles," the 'Schitt's Creek' star said about whether she'd have any work done....
This article, It's Your Friends Who Break Your Heart by Jennifer Senior from The Atlantic with the tag line...."The older we get, the more we need our friends—and the harder it is to keep them," was recommended to me by a dear friend. We often talk about friendship and how important it is at our age and how these past 2 years have been especially challenging on friendships.
Please read this piece or listen to it all the way to the end. I am betting every single one of you will find this totally relatable at some point in the piece. It gets even better as Jennifer Senior breaks down the different categories of friendships. Her writing is spectacular.
And this is where it begins....
"It is an insolent cliché, almost, to note that our culture lacks the proper script for ending friendships. We have no rituals to observe, no paperwork to do, no boilerplate dialogue to crib from....
During the holidays, many families suffer from estrangement. This is not a new issues but seems to be getting more attention because of social media trends. T...
I thought age and maturity would show up on some designated day, not that it would sneak in like a single mouse right before the massive infestation. Gray hair runs in my family, so that wasn't a surprise. The freckles on my hands were a surprise, the extra skin on my arms, whoa. Suddenly instead of the snotty idiot judgmental teenager horrified at those Ladies at the pool (who seemingly didn't care about their wobbly arms and jiggly thighs), I WAS that lady at the pool....
Like a fair weather sports fan who had given up on their team in a down season, I guiltily admitted that I had forgotten how much I adored the buzz of the city and felt badly that I didn't think NYC could feel like this again.
And for the first time in 2 years, I felt the fear of being in the city melt away and the allure returned.
Breakfast Paris meets NYC style with Auntie Dina, a cultural immersion and the charge one gets from walking miles and miles with my friend in NYC ...
I'm obsessed with the new HBO series White Lotus. Was it the cast: Connie Britton, Murray Bartlett and Jennifer Coolidge, and the others or, their self indulg...
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I have finally seen THE movie of the summer– and perhaps the year: SUMMER OF SOUL (… Or, When the Revolution...
“Your hair’s just like my sister’s!” she cooed, as I entered the salon. “Let’s do a mixture of blonde, brown and ginger!”
Who knew that, in London, “ginger” meant pink? (Answer: my mother, who read all those nineteenth century English novels I never managed to get around to). Here I thought I was softening my look with some kind of golden honey tone, and instead I emerged with magenta streaks. I looked like some rare breed of Eurasian squirrel....
Thanks to the rise of the catch-all insult cheugy, declaring millennial lifestyle staples as cringey has gotten easier than ever before. If the emergence of a trendy new term is making you want to, not take a nap, but just rest your eyes for a bit, then I regret to inform you that you’re old you’ve come to the right place. WTF is cheugy, am I cheugy......
Maybe it’s because it’s January and the sun sets before 5:00pm. Maybe it’s because I feel hopeful after watching Amanda Gorman, the 22-year-old Poet Laureate, r...
Indulge in these amazing photographs by dear friend and talented photographer/author, Katie Dolan. You may be ready to sign up for the next photography class after reading this....
