It’s almost January 1st, a date that reminds us about goals as much as any other. Here are two steps to help you meet your 2012 goals. Planning for goals is the...
Sometimes the craziest things happen when you’re spontaneous. After raising four kids and running a small catering business – all while being married to a busy doctor, playing team tennis and performing with a small aging dance troupe -- it felt like things were winding down in my life. And I’m not the winding down type of woman....
When my dad sees me, he gives me a big smile through chocolate-stained dentures. He is just finishing a cookie. There are crumbs on his lap and on the floor surrounding his wheelchair....
Up there on the list of things we boomer women seem hesitate to talk about are sex and money. But this story, from NBC News about how Baby Boomer women are the ...
"For Georgia O'Keeffe, forty was the new sixty. She always looked older than she was, and she didn't care, or didn't care enough.The most radical thing about Ge...
I've always wondered (and been jealous of) the how and why behind the fact that French women can have their chocolate croissants and red wine and yet STILL look...
Yes, You Can! Ready. Set. Go. Time to commit to goals. This new read, just released this November makes achieving athletic goals doable. What works for BA50's i...
This may sound a bit insensitive, but I was thrilled to see Rick Perry’s brain freeze at the Republican Presidential debate. That was when he wanted to elimina...
It happened by accident. BA Publisher and Founder Felice Shapiro, who had been working on BetterAfter50.com in beta for more than a year, decided to host a “BA5...
It is summer shedding season for Bella, my female Newfoundland; hairy hummocks of black fur drift around the kitchen as I brush, and brush, and brush....
I got engaged in 1979 when I was 23 because I fell in love – with an antique sapphire and diamond ring. I know, I know, I was supposed to be in love with the man who bought it for me but, looking back, I’m not sure that was the case....
We are lucky to have Dr. Jane writing for us as she has a bustling private practice where she conducts cognitive assessments and psychotherapy in addition to lecturing around New York City on this topic....
Drinking Diaries was conceived, sadly, as a result of my own mother’s drinking. Well into her sixties, my mother’s wine habit went from socially acceptable and culturally expected (she’s French) to deeply problematic....
If my husband ever cheats on me, that’s it. It’s over.
If mine cheats, I’ll kick him to the curb.
Mine wouldn’t cheat. He knows I’d kill him!
H’mmmm…sure.
Mo...
With her friend Louisa, writer Jamie Stringfellow set out from Hermosa Beach with a goal: to walk a 38-mile route to the Getty Villa near Malibu Beach over four days. En route, the pair passed through Santa Monica....
