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Wonderful news!  No more botox, no more lifts, tucks, nips or lipo; no more going under the knife!  All women over forty should pack their bags and head to China!  Apparently, the so-called fabled Fountain of Youth is not located in St. Augustine, Florida as many have written about the exploits of Ponce de León.  Nor […]

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Things change yet remain the same.  When I first arrived in Paris in 1971, I was amazed by the way the French would speak about the war (WWII) as though it had happened yesterday!  It would come up in daily conversations over and over; a remark here, or a reminder there, but for me it […]

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Last night I painted Katia’s nails turquoise, a color that I wore for more than 30 years!  Yes, I guess you could say I was way ahead of my time!  However, when I turned 50,  and everyone else began to wear blue, green, and purple nail polish, I stopped wearing it.  “Why be like everyone else?” I […]

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Maya Muses: Next time I don’t feel like going somewhere, I now have the perfect excuse for staying at home!
Why Middle-Age Women Should Stay At Home!

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No cell phones, no e-mails, no computers; just back to a simpler time when people couldn’t contact you at any given moment.  It was wonderful!  Yes, we did listen to the answering machine when we got home every evening, but that was all.  Katarina, Patrick and I spent our time like tourists in a city […]

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Every year when the days get longer and summer is on the horizon, I become increasingly depressed.  I hate the heat and love the cold weather.  I know, I know, I’m just the opposite of most people who suffer from what is called the Winter Blues, but I love the gray skies and nighttime falling […]

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When my younger brother, Bam, (not his real name) bought a beautiful black convertible Stingray Corvette, I could understand how he was constantly babying his new car, but when he seriously thought of moving to a new house so he could drive his car right into his bedroom, I thought he was going bonkers!  He had […]

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After getting a webcam, not only have we been talking to friends and family halfway around the world several times a week, (which is great!) but with internet phone service, it cost hardly anything at all to make those calls.  When I became an expat in 1971, needless to say, it was before the internet and […]

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Something is definitely wrong when all the news is about a young teenage girl who had photographs taken showing less skin than most girls her age show on the beach!  Annie Leibovitz’s photos of Miley Cyrus for Vanity Fair are beautiful.  I see no reason for Miley to even apologize!  Yes, young girls look up […]

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Danielle Crittenden over at The Huffington Post wrote “How To Lie About Your Age“.  She brings up an important question that I have thought about for years.  Why do women lie about their age and take off five or ten years thinking that’ll fool people, when in reality all it does is make people think, […]

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