“Spa” is my middle name!  Add delectable cuisine in a breathtaking 19th Century mansion and I’m in heaven!  But this hideaway has a unique twist.  Memories Manor is an exclusive retreat designed for ladies that love to scrapbook!  This St. Clair, Michigan treasure was home for a blissful weekend in mid-March for January,  Leanne, Judy, and [...]

You’d think I’d have learned by now to “walk not run” down the stairs.  Well I guess I hadn’t…until yesterday.  I stupidly ran down the stairs and tripped on the final two steps.  I’ve learned my lesson this time after five hours in Emergency, several gruelling x-rays with a final diagnosis of a chipped ankle bone [...]

I’ve spent the better part of the winter parked in front of my TV watching contestants sing, dance, cry, starve and backstab.  Yep.  Sad but true.  And you know I’ve found that TV and eating seem to go hand in hand.  Or should I say hand to mouth!  No wonder my pants were too tight [...]

There are moments in life that no matter how many people are all around you, you are still alone.  I came to that realization as I sat in my oversized hospital gown waiting for the x-ray tech to return from that mysterious place down the long hall where a faceless stranger determines your fate. “We [...]

I’d like to honour two outstanding women over 40 that have set the bar high for the rest of us! I find their achievements inspiring and I know that if we believe in ourselves, there isn’t anything we can’t do. One woman crashed through the film industry’s glass ceiling last Sunday. Fifty-eight year old Kathryn [...]

My hat goes off to Valerie Bertinelli for standing up for traditional marriage on The View last week.  Barbara Walters revealed that actress Mo’Nique in her pre-Oscar interview told her that she and husband Sidney Hicks have an “open marriage.”  Joy Behar mumbled something about someone being there as important and Sherri Shepherd brought up the fact that [...]

We’ve all digested the sorted details of Tiger Woods and his famous flings and watched the media’s OJ Simpson style stalking of Woods’ house on national TV.  And just when we thought all the perpetrators had crawled back under their rocks, Tiger Woods resurfaces decked out in his Nike duds interrupting our TV viewing pleasure [...]

Jenny Sanford, Elizabeth Edwards, and Gayle Haggard.  What do all these women have in common?  They’re amazingly strong, over 40 and have cheating husbands!  High profile cheating husbands.  You don’t see Hilary Clinton at a press conference apologizing to her constituents about a boy toy in Argentina.  In fact, I can’t recall ever seeing a [...]

I am NOT a fan of chain letters. I cringe when I get to the bottom of a lovely thought-provoking email and it says to send it to 10 friends in 15 seconds or you’ll be forever plagued with loneliness, warts, creeping underwear, whatever! It would take me longer than 15 seconds to pick the [...]

“There ain’t no way to hide your lyin’ eyes.” The Eagles had it right.  I have a friend who’s struggling with the painful memory of seeing her husband in bed with her best friend.  Devastating to say the least when two people you trust with your life, “head for the cheatin’ side of town.”  My [...]