In August, the women’s fashion magazine, Allure, vowed to stop using the word anti-aging. The magazine’s editors declared that words matter and that the term anti-aging when it comes to fashion, beauty, or hair, leads to the idea that ageism, as a prejudice, is okay. “Whether we know it or not, we’re subtly reinforcing the message that […]
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Scared to Go Gray
I don’t know a basic fact about myself. I know my blood type and parentage, what I don’t know, really know, is the color of my hair. I know what color it used to be. A dark blonde. It’s been super blonde for a really long time. In the 1980s, I discovered Sun-In before my […]
Life Lessons from a 1973 Volkswagen Beetle
Recently, Consumer Reports and the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety teamed up to advise parents on the best cars to buy for a new teen driver. It got me thinking about my first car, the Volkswagen Beetle. Though it makes no “best of” lists, it was the perfect car for a sixteen-year-old me tooling around […]
Creative Advice for a Sweet Valentine
Flowers? Candy? Dinner? A mushy card? Maybe a heartfelt Facebook post? The available options for celebrating love on Valentine’s Day are endless. As a wife of over thirty years, I shall show my devotion by loading the dishwasher the way my husband likes it done. Nothing I could say or buy could better express my […]
Joanna Gaines and Me
Yes THEE Joanna Gaines liked my column one time. Here’s the column, which ran in 2016 originally. I mean if she likes it YOU WILL TOO! Every so often a show on HGTV gets me hooked. I’ve written about “Beachfront Bargain Hunt” and a few others. With these shows there’s not really a host. There’s […]
A Journey of Packing
Whether it’s work travel or vacation travel, packing a suitcase is a major process. For me, it’s an emotional journey that can include denial, anger, bargaining, and acceptance. This is true whether I am packing for myself or supervising the family luggage stuffing. My process begins by laundering every item of clothing in the house. […]