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6 other things that can shake up your life in your 50’s
When we were thirty years old, we were really just starting our lives. Our roaring twenties were over and now it was time to get serious. We faced ups and downs, twists and turns but it was okay because we were young and still flexible. We…
life lessons from a chicken?
It’s funny. You can learn life lessons anytime, anywhere. I happened to learn a very valuable life lesson the other week . . . while cooking chicken? I was feeling bored with chicken so I thought I would try a new recipe for chicken…
6 retirement savings tips you may not have thought of
I recently wrote about the problem with retirement calculators and it really got me thinking about how much I have saved (or not saved!) for my future. It’s not like I don’t think about saving but it seems like it always gets put on the…
laughter is the best medicine
Does anybody remember Readers Digest? It’s in just about every waiting room out there – the doctor’s office, the dentist’s office, the car mechanics shop. The Reader’s Digest is the first thing I look for when I’m in a waiting room…
dinner with a stranger
Autumn 2017. It had been a while since my BF and I had spent any quality time together. It was an exceptionally busy summer for both of us with our work. I was travelling so much and he was working evenings and weekends. We were ships…
boxed wine and doritos
Marketers will always try to tell us that we need the next new thing. Apparently my refrigerator is obsolete because it doesn’t have a separate temperature gauge for my celery. And have you heard? Stainless steel is on its way out! Grey is…
stop blaming everyone else
Do you want to know one of my biggest pet peeves? People who constantly blame someone or something else for the state of their life. Things didn’t work out the way they wanted so, instead of taking responsibility, they start to blame…
why my busyness made me miserable
Busyness. I love this word! And, yes, it is a word. It’s even in the dictionary. Busyness [biz-ee-nis] noun 1. The quality or condition of being busy 2. Lively but meaningless activity The first definition is simple enough to understand:…