10 Simple Steps to a Healthy Relationship
Creating a healthy, loving, supportive and fulfilling relationship with our significant other might be as easy as following these 10 simple steps.
Tag Archives: gratitude
Making Your Second Marriage (or Relationship) Better than the First
Some folk leave their marriage or long-term relationship with elegance and grace. Some of us have catastrophic break ups that leave us cowering under the covers for months, if not years. When we move on to a new relationship, we bring with us a truck load of heavy baggage. And as our new relationship turns… Read More
U is for Universe • #atozchallenge
Although I don’t believe in the concept of God as a supernatural being with an interest in the thoughts and action of human beings, I do believe in a collective consciousness. The simplest term to describe this, is to call it the Universe. I see it as the amalgamation of the spirit in all living… Read More
I is for Invisible • 8 simple ways to fight back
Women of a certain age complain loudly about feeling invisible. They report being ignored in shops and restaurants, eyes glancing past them as though they weren’t even there. Many women are reluctant to stop colouring their hair because they think this will make the problem worse. In the society we live in, older people in general,… Read More
Gratitude • Warning: May Raise Dangerous Questions
My commitment to blog a gratitude post every day in May has slipped away over the last couple of days. The reason is because I have been having a crisis of faith. When I started saying Thank You every day for something in my life, I began to wonder who I was saying Thank You to.… Read More
The Tipping Point • When Strange Becomes Beautiful
When Conchita Wurst appeared on stage in a gold lamé gown, her eyes fringed in thick black eyelashes, her hair in long gentle waves, and her chin covered in a dark beard, she wasn’t a circus freak, she was a gorgeous, strange, mesmerising human being.
My Two Mothers
To all women, here in the flesh or in spirit, I offer my gratitude. You are the mothers of the world who bring in to being new life, new thought, new beauty.
Sexy Time • Enjoy it While You Can
Today I learned something new about relationships. I learned that as we age, sometimes our bodies don’t do what we would like them to any more. Illness, both mental and physical, along with the medications we have to take to stay healthy, can interfere with both our sex drive and our ability to perform.
How Technology Has Changed My Life
Being of a certain age, I have had the curious pleasure of watching technology transform over the past fifty years. When I went to school, we found all our information in an encyclopaedia or at the library. When I went to University, I typed my assignments on an electric typewriter with a corrector ribbon. When I first started work, I sent out rehearsal schedules and important announcements via fax.
Showing Off • Is It Vain to Talk About Our Good Fortune?
Sometimes it seems like there’s a kind of competition to see who has the shittiest life. Does my adoption, bulimia and husband’s suicide beat your job loss, chronic fatigue syndrome and divorce? Who knows … who’s judging these things?
Retail Therapy • New Looks for Winter
If I didn’t know better I would think my boyfriend wasn’t straight. He has such a great eye, he should be a stylist.
Grateful May • A Month of Appreciation
As the last vestiges of summer sigh and turn indoors, my heart grows heavy and weary of remembering bad things.
No one belongs here more than you
Do you have doubts about life? Are you unsure if it is worth the trouble?
Look at the sky: that is for you.