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View Article5 Reasons Women Should Dance Daily
Dancing is music in action, and even if you move like Elaine on “Seinfeld,” you should do it once a day. My son used to dance when “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” came on the television. As soon as he...
View ArticleWhy is Saying “No” So Freakin’ Difficult for Women?
Perhaps it depends on the question, but for most of us saying no is almost impossible. We feel guilty if we say no, so we keep saying yes, for fear that we will hurt somebody’s feelings, or disappoint...
View Article5 Smart Ways to Avoid Becoming A Permanent Babysitter for Your Grandkids
I don’t have grandkids yet, but I’ve already told my children that I will not be their go-to-babysitter. I started sending this message subliminally when they were little . . . “Do you want to watch...
View ArticleWhy Playing Big is a Good Idea for Women
Marianne Williamson has a wonderful quote that says: Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We...
View ArticleHow To Overcome the Pity Party When Age Creeps In and Says “Boo!”
If I were a car at CarMax, I would be moved to that back lot where the cars with excessive mileage have been put out to pasture. If you’ve never visited that lot, ask about it. An odometer with 75,000...
View Article3 Great Suggestions on How Women Can Say “No”
I recently wrote a blog about why it’s so freakin’ hard for women to say “no” to things we really don’t want to do. I’ve had so much post-discussion on this topic that I’ve decided to share a few of...
View ArticleHow Hot Flashes Build A Bridge Between All Women
I thought my hot flashes were going away, and I was happy. Now they’ve intensified, and I’m left red-faced and sweaty. However, being a reluctant optimist, I have looked for the sunny side of an...
View ArticleThanks Menopause – Now I See Dead People
“Hey, did you hear that?” I ask as I pound my husband in the arm. It’s the middle of the night, and he hasn’t heard a thing. He just wishes I’d quit hitting him. “Huh? No. What? I’m right here,” he...
View Article3 Things Menopausal Rage Taught Me About Inner Peace
I’d never seen her before, but she came late to class and plopped her yoga mat directly in front of mine, even though I had arrived thirty minutes early to secure my spot. In hot yoga we politely...
View ArticleHow a Chin Hair Makes Me a Menopausal Shaman
My daughter recently looked at my eyes and said, “Why are your eyelashes so thin?” Rather than smack her, I did the female thing and somehow felt guilty about not taking good enough care of my...
View ArticleThe Menopausal Mood Hat
I was watching clips from last week’s Green Bay Packer’s game and saw a man wearing a Cheese Head. I thought to myself, “That cheese hat lets everyone know, immediately, that you are a Green Bay...
View ArticleHow Football Helped My Mother Score a Cabbage Patch Kid
Is it so wrong that I would rather watch a football game than go shopping? Is it really weird that my family knows not to call me during a Redskins’ game? I wondered the other day what it is about...
View ArticleHow a Dame Prepares for a Hurricane
I’m not sure there’s a perfect way to prepare for a storm like Sandy. However, I’ve been interacting with my friends on Facebook who are in the storm’s path and I’ve gathered some interesting ideas....
View ArticleWhy I Vote Yet Dread the Experience
I guess suffering through the voting experience is not the same as being a Suffragist. I just read a great blog article about those activists who sacrificed to earn our right to vote. Several were...
View ArticleHow I Wear Paris Around My Neck
I took six years of French because I was in love with France. “Bonjour mon nom est Donna. Je t’aime.” That’s pretty much all I remember, except for Patti LaBelle’s contribution of “Voulez-Vous Couchez...
View ArticleWhere Did All The Pantyhose Go?
I hear that pantyhose are making a comeback. Thank goodness. My legs have never needed them more. I remember the first time my mom showed me how to put hose on, minus the panty. This was when garters...
View ArticleIf You’re A Calorie-Counter, Please Don’t Sit Next To Me On Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving is a time for unbridled gluttony, and that is a rule that should never be broken. So, I accept the fact that one precious day a year I can eat gravy and pie and mashed potatoes made with...
View ArticleWhy Rosemary Is Now Scarier Than Her Baby
Remember the movie Rosemary’s Baby? Well, I would like to pitch a new version of the movie that’s less about Rosemary’s evil baby and more about the evil, menopausal Rosemary. I am sure my husband...
View ArticleSix Degrees of Conversational Separation: How Kevin Bacon Has Kept Me From...
As seen in Huffington Post Ah, Kevin Bacon. Your degrees of separation have kept me in the conversational game, and I will be forever thankful. Six degrees of separation is the notion that everyone is,...
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