My Writing

Twenty months ago I ended my relationship with my partner of 23 years. Happily ended. I wanted and needed it to end. Sometimes I miss the...

It is so much fun to hear from women in their sixties and seventies that they are having the best sex of their lives! Fulfilling,...

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Greater Happiness Is Closer Than You Think I found a new groove. I got my groove on. I am in the groove. I am groovin’. But it’s not what...

About five years ago, when I was still gainfully employed and in the midst of designing a plan for my retirement, aka my Third Act, I...

Photo by Marek Piwnicki on Unsplash I almost drowned once. I did not speak of the experience for decades, nor did I get angry about it...

I relish the weekly time, each Friday afternoon, I spend with the words of the goddess Mary Oliver, whose poems fill me astonishment,...

How to Make Things Better for Both of You Photo by Danny G on Unsplash I had the unusual opportunity (more on that in another story,...

The Sins of the Father are Still With Us Photo by Tammy Gann on Unsplash One. Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) The domestic violence...

or How to End Your War with Time in Your Third Act I used to think that the concept of an all powerful Boss, ie God, had been replaced by...

Or Is the Pause in Menopause A Thing? Due to some interesting but strange conversations I have been having of late, I can’t tell you how...

I am post-menopausal for about a decade and find societal attitudes about women’s sexuality in this stage of life fascinating. Menopause...