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Maybe My Redefinition After 50 Means Simply Creating a New Good Habit? redefining after 50 self-care Dec 14, 2020

I’ve been posting quite a bit on Life Balance After 50 on the topic of women redefining after age 50. And it’s often involved major redefinitions.

We’ve met women who moved to...

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A Generational View of the Global Pandemic family Nov 29, 2020

My 82 year old mom, who is a very social woman, moved from 4 hours away to be closer to us – right before Covid hit. She was dealing with it successfully because it was spring and summer and...

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SERIES – “Everyday” Women Who Have Redefined After 50 – Kate Clary redefining after 50 Nov 22, 2020

WHAT A GREAT STORY!!! I first read about Kate in Huff Post’s 50 Over 50. And when I reached out to her to interview her for my blog series she could not have been more welcoming.

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Virtual Activity Ideas to Do With Grandchildren family the grands Nov 08, 2020

Originally published in Sixty and Me

When the pandemic quarantine began in March, I figured I could do anything for two weeks. Then two weeks turned into four and four into eight, and here we are...

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Redefining after 50 Isn't Always About Work redefining after 50 self-care Nov 06, 2020

As I drove home in February from moving my mom to be closer to us, I listened to an audible book called “Do It Scared” and it got me thinking. I’d always put my family first and...

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Series – Everyday Women Who Have Redefined After 50 – Lisa Condie redefining after 50 Nov 02, 2020

Lisa's Background Story

Lisa Condie was a stay at home mom of two. She had a small fitness business and taught exercise classes, but being a wife and mom was her main focus. She married and raised...

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Songs That Make You Sing and Dance No Matter Your Mood self-care Oct 18, 2020

I was driving home from a week long visit with my son and his family and feeling kind of blah. It’s October and we continue to be in the middle of a global pandemic. I had been looking...

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Series – Everyday Women Who Have Redefined After 50: Judith Pratt-Jefferies redefining after 50 Oct 10, 2020

What an amazing and gutsy woman. It was a joy to sit and chat with Judith Pratt-Jefferies and I look forward to many more interactions with her in the future.

Before...

Judith was a dietician who...

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HOW TO PRIORITIZE YOURSELF AS A COUPLE WHEN YOU HAVE A SENIOR PARENT OR ADULT CHILD LIVING WITH YOU family Oct 08, 2020

Originally written for and published in Sixty and Me

About five years ago, my husband approached me and asked me how I would feel about having his mother come live with us. We had only been married...

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We’re Allowed Our “Things” – Our Guilty Pleasures self-care Oct 04, 2020

We all have our “thing” that we do that seems to defy our outward persona. Others might look at us funny when they learn of it, but we simply respond with a smile and something down the...

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Virtual Grandma (Yammi) Preschool the grands Sep 20, 2020

As the Covid pandemic continues to affect us, schools across the country are all attending differently. Some are full time in person, some part time in person/part time virtual, and others are full...

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