blogging, GenX, health, midlife34 Comments

Odd causes for back pain

April 18, 2022April 18, 2022 Writer of Words, etc

Note to people who talk/text/email me: Anything you say to me can and will be used in my writing. 😊

After the family went through their isolation periods and resumed normal life, I got sick. Testing showed negative but I’m a hermit so I continued doing what I usually do (stay home) and now I’m at the tail end of this head cold.

But, during a coughing attack last week I dislocated something in my lower back.

I do not have back issues. This never happened before.

blogging, mental health, midlife14 Comments

Guided meditation: the journey

April 15, 2022April 15, 2022 Writer of Words, etc

I have meditated in the past, on and off, mostly by doing focused breathing. When I began doing yoga along with my fitness routine (and mastering the side plank) I became more focused in my meditations. I began to understand the link between focused breathing and my body in ways I didn’t before.

mental health, midlife22 Comments

Kicking the pity party to the curb

March 7, 2022March 17, 2022 Writer of Words, etc

Yesterday, two people walked right past me, literally a foot distance from my physical person.

They knew I was there, waiting for them.

They walked past me and into the parking lot like their life depended on it.

I thought, have I reverted to being invisible again?

blogging, midlife, Women issues16 Comments

Navigating the Change essay contest: body positivity

January 25, 2022January 26, 2022 Writer of Words, etc

Did you know I have an article posted in Navigating the Change, called Digestive Health in Midlife?

Navigating the Change is a website designed and launched by KE Garland.

blogging, GenX, inspiration59 Comments

Want vs Don’t Want

January 15, 2022January 15, 2022 Writer of Words, etc

Note: this post is entirely void of emojis.

Do you tend to focus on what you want? Or does your focus shift to what you don’t want?

fitness, midlife60 Comments

Fitness in midlife: core, strength and stamina (and a video demonstration)

January 3, 2022January 3, 2022 Writer of Words, etc

Today I woke up in a state. Instead of feeling

excited about a new day, week, month, year with a fresh start, I felt annoyed
content, I felt dissatisfied
calm, I felt restless
at peace, I felt like starting an argument or picking a fight
like writing prose, I wrote this drivel

What is happening… 😱

Time to re-calibrate.

blogging4 Comments

Midlife and cosmetics: the Botox dilemma continued (part 3)

January 1, 2022January 1, 2022 Writer of Words, etc

Part 1 – Midlife and cosmetics: skin care and eyebrow shaping (part 1)

Part 2 – Midlife and cosmetics: the Botox dilemma (part 2)

Last two paragraphs of part 2, the Botox dilemma:

GenX, midlife, relationships30 Comments

What are friends for?

December 13, 2021December 15, 2021 Writer of Words, etc

Let’s say you have a friendship with a person who is not the same gender as you (and you are both heterosexual). Let’s say there may or may not be some spark between you. Let’s say the friendship is platonic and continues to be this way and is mutually accepted as such.

GenX, midlife18 Comments

Midlife and cosmetics: the Botox dilemma (part 2)

November 29, 2021January 3, 2022 Writer of Words, etc

Remember this post where I admitted my struggle to shape my eyebrows since my teen years? I left a little cliffhanger at the end, where my beautician Eva uttered a single word. 😛

Here are the final few paragraphs of that post, and the continuation of what happened next.

One day well into my late 40s, I asked Eva what she can recommend to hide some irksome wrinkles between my brows. Was there a type of make-up I could use that would minimize this self-perceived flaw that had bothered me for as long as I had been plucking my own eyebrows? That’s a lot of years of constant zooming in on that one point in my face. The wrinkles resembled a scar (I don’t even know if it is a scar, or if it is, how I got it) and I became increasingly self-conscious about it as I aged.

In fact, this scar/wrinkle was, at one time, the reason I desired bangs. (Never ever again.)

Eva had me lie back on her table and inspected my upper face under a bright light with a magnifying mirror.

Then, she said one word:

midlife19 Comments

Midlife and cosmetics: skin care and eyebrow shaping (part 1)

November 27, 2021November 29, 2021 Writer of Words, etc

Ever since I was a teen girl I was bothered by my eyebrows.

a day in the life, midlife, pandemic11 Comments

More pandemic reflections while out on a stroll

September 21, 2021September 22, 2021 Writer of Words, etc

The other day I was taking a break from the daily routine and took a walk around a park near a marina. The area is peppered with a few small, non-chain restaurants and bars, but they were relatively quiet since it was a weekday in the middle of the afternoon; happy hour wouldn’t begin for a while.