Pass The Salt, PLEASE!
I’m obsessed with Salt. Salts from Hawaii, Prussia and Prague -- Blue salts, red salts, pink salts and Sel gris (gray salt)....
Felice’s Blog
Felice Shapiro, Founder and Publisher of Better After 50, muses about life as a BA50.
Connect with Felice on her Twitter and her Facebook. You can also connect on the BA50 Twitter or BA50 Facebook Page.
Vacation Constipation
I have learned how to say constipated in French, Italian German and Japanese and frankly, I'm not interested in learning how to say it in Hebrew....
Meredith Vieira Interviewed Me!
I had to pinch myself to the point of bruising when I realized I was about to be face to face with Meredith Vieira....
Confessions of a Netflix Addict
Breaking Bad has been the tipping point downward as Walter White’s meth-cooking addiction has become my addiction. ...
My Fitness Role Model
“Well, I couldn’t hold a plank for more than 30 seconds and you held yours for the whole two minutes – that’s amazing!” ...
OMG, I Landed the Plane!
I thought the more I went up with him the more comfortable I would become – NOT! Then I got the “talk.”...
The Destination Anniversary Party
Beyond the mid-life mark we can only hope our own guest list has been pruned and distilled and what remains is a group that feels easy and right....
Fashion Crisis: I’m Ready For a Uniform
I was clearly confronted with a seasonal fashion challenge....
The Healing Dinner Party
Whenever there’s some praying to be done, we open our recipe books way more enthusiastically than we do our prayer books....
Defining The Empty Nester’s Perfect Next Home
I knew that if I put my “empty nester dream home" description out on the Internet, someone would write to me and tell me...IT EXISTS! ...
What Are You Doing this Fall?
But I wasn’t feeling chill. I actually wasn’t sure I wanted to share my next project with the others. ...
We’re Not Too Old For the MTV Awards
You want to get into your kids heads – understand what the generation we have raised are thinking about and what moves them ...
They Saved My Husband’s Life
Who would have saved my poor Bill from that evil garbage truck were it not those skilled volunteer firefighters?...
Healing is Exhausting and Hard Work
So we pull back on our reins, painful as that bit feels on our jaws, and we are humbled into baby steps....
How Much Risk Are You Willing to Take To Have Fun?
I received a calm message from a skilled ER administrator: “Your husband has had a bike accident -- please come to the ER.”...
Edible Gardening 101
I really tried to make a beautiful edible garden this season --- motivated by an obsession with peas....
Blending Families With Young Adults
These boys didn’t choose to be with one another – my husband and I chose each other – and they are left to figure out how to make their step-brotherhood work....
Technology Nervous Breakdown
What the Hell am I supposed to do? None of the kids had a solution....
Seasonal Summer ADD
At the end of the morning’s assessment, my self-diagnosed conclusion was, I am suffering from seasonal ADD....
Food on Your Face: Skin and Natural Fixes
Smearing food on your face to improve your skin condition, doesn't it sound like fun?...