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Are Women Over 50 into March Madness?

Monday, March 28th, 2011

Annice

Is it just me or is it because I live in NC where basketball is king that I’m overwhelmed with March Madness? To be honest, I really don’t care about it. There it is. I’ve said it. I’ve got enough madness in my life, thank you very much.

Another truth, I never even heard about it until I met my husband 16 years ago. He loves college basketball, and all sports except NASCAR (thank God). Come mid-March, Madness lives in our living room because we are not a home with multiple televisions, something I insisted on long ago. That means whenever there is any kind of tournament (World Series, Super Bowl, PGA Golf, Wimbledon, etc.) the T.V. is on and on and on until I try to convince my husband to go downstairs to his office to watch this Madness on his laptop. Needless to say, he doesn’t enjoy that AT ALL.

When I can no longer endure the basketball game in our house, I politely hand over the Sennheiser wireless headphones (which I highly recommend) to my husband before muting the T.V.

Sennheiser Headphones

When I question him about all this basketball, he thinks I’m crazy. “Everyone watches college basketball this time of the year,” he assures me. Really? I’m pretty sure most of my friends don’t watch it. I’m sure if I had sons who played basketball I’d be more interested. Don’t get me wrong, I admire, even envy the talents of super athletes and their victories. Who doesn’t like to see their team triumph? But two weeks of basketball? So, I’m asking, how many of you are really into all that March Madness?

Tags: Basketball, Beautiful Women >50, feeling overwhelmed, oops50, Sports, writers over 50
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Beautiful Women over 50: Gwendie’s Postsecret

Friday, March 25th, 2011

Gwendie

There’s a blog that’s getting lots of attention. It’s called “postsecrets” (http://www.postsecret.com). People send in anonymous handmade postcards with a personal secret on the back. Things like “I wish my life were exciting”, and “When you see me in public and I seem to be reading a book, I’m really eavesdropping on you”. Some are darker, more intimate. I’ve been thinking about sending in one myself. One of the things that holds me back is that, unlike the postcard makers who get their submissions posted, I’m not the least little bit creative in the visual sense. Check out the website to see what I mean.

But my secret, like most of the ones on the website, is one that possibly a lot of other people, especially women, share with me. It is this: I don’t feel sorry for women whose husbands have died; I feel envious.

There, I’ve said it. Another problem with this secret, unlike the ones on the website, is that it needs more explanation to make any sense. And that won’t fit so easily on a postcard.

I have friends and relatives (sometimes these are the same people), men and women, whose marriage partner died, and they were devastated. They grieved and cried and missed their mate fiercely. They yearned to have him or her back. Some of them really look forward to reuniting in heaven. They feel awful, at least for awhile, sometimes for a long while. But still I am envious.

Here’s why: to feel that bad about the loss of a spouse, there must have been a lot of good things about the marriage. Good times, good experiences, good feelings to be so acutely missed. Even the good memories are bittersweet; they remind my friends of their depth of their loss.

I never had that. So I am envious.

I would trade places in a heartbeat.

Tags: beautifulwomenover50, divorce, Grief, marriage, postsecret, postsecret.com, women over 50, women over fifty
Posted in Aging, Beautiful Women >50, Entertainment, Humor, Journey, Living, Love, Main, Other Voices, Products, Products, Relationships | 1 Comment »

Sadhvi Sez: Visualize Hope (and bake a Swiss Linzer Torte)

Monday, March 21st, 2011

SADHVI'S SWISS LINZER TORTE

A lot has happened since I had that dream of Arianna Huffinton wanting me to be her friend on FaceBook. The earthquake in Japan. The Tsunami in Japan. The Nuclear Nightmare in Japan. Coming to terms with my heart opening and crying for what seemed like a long, long time. People all around not really feeling it. As if, since it didn’t happen here, and there is nothing to be done about it, well, Japan will recover. Something feels broken to me and something feels more insane in the world. I feel both scared and relaxed a lot of the time. I turned 53 last week, and I woke up to having jowls, just like all the women on my mother’s side of the family.

THE FIRST SPRING CROCUS

Spring has come. And here where I live it feels already like summer.

I also made one of my favorite things to eat, something that I have not made for maybe 20 years: A Swiss Linzer Torte. The recipe I want to share is exactly the same kind you would find in any Bakery in Switzerland, and boy, it is good. Which made me happy, and made me feel like there is hope.

This recipe is easy and is truly divine. Oh, I know that the metric is a drag, but only if you don’t have that manual metric scale that is very affordable and ever so easy to use like I have. Don’t go to Amazon, Google it and shop someplace local, so that you can get it in person, Ok? Because if you order it from Amazon, and it is broken, you will not be able to return it to Amazon, etc. I am trying to spare you from having the nightmares that I have had with them on more than one occasion. I try not to get anything on Amazon. No customer service. No, I mean, horrible customer service. In fact, before I forget to tell you, if you like to buy books, go to Better World Books online. They are a great company with great prices on new and used books, and they contribute money to promote literacy and help fund libraries. Oh, and they have free shipping. Thank you Tosh for sharing that site. Ok, here is the recipe: Here is to things getting better everywhere. (more…)

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Posted in Aging, Beautiful Women >50, Books, Journey, Living, Main, Products, Recipes/Food, Sadhvi Sez, Shopping, The Environment, Travel, World | 2 Comments »

Sadhvi Sez: The Best Prices on Vitamins and Herbs

Monday, January 31st, 2011

SADHVI

As a woman over 50, I am always looking for deals. Ok, to tell you the truth, this has nothing to do with my body being over 50; I have always liked being a bargain hunter and finder! And I am always into sharing. So here’s the best place I have found to buy quality vitamins and herbs that will save you lots of money; it’s not in any store, it’s online at a site called Swanson Vitamins.

SAVING MONEY FOR A RAINY DAY!

I now buy vitamins twice a year from Swanson, and smile when I go to the health food store and look at the prices of the same vitamins there that cost a lot more money. Do you have a better place to save money? If so, please share because these days we are all into simplifying our lives and saving money!

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Posted in Alternative Health, Beautiful Women >50, Health, Home, Living, Main, Money, Products, Products, Products, Products, Products, Sadhvi Sez | 4 Comments »

Top Ten Signs You’re Ridding Your Life of Vampires

Sunday, January 2nd, 2011

Photograph by Michael & Patricia Fogden/Corbis

I was going to write to all of our women over 50 bloggers about the changes I want to make in 2011, and believe me, there are more than enough to fill a week’s worth of posts. However, as I look back at 2010, what strikes me most (besides the most obvious news stories) is that 2010 was the year of the vampire. It was everywhere. Why are people so fascinated with vampires? Not me, I’m all about getting rid of all the life sucking forces around me, and not only in 2011 but “Ad infinitum et ultra!”

In 2010 I felt bombarded with vampire stuff everywhere around me. Bookstores, movies, television, recipes, and even phone apps. Even our beloved Jane Eyre has been reduced to a spin-off: Jane Slayre by Charlotte Bronte and Sherri Browning Erwin.

This volume takes Brontë’s classic and turns the Reed family into vampires, and Jane Eyre’s classmates into zombies.

Vampire Cupcake

If you were reading this vampire classic late into the night, were you sipping on your Vampire Blood Drink recipe courtesy of Michael Chiarello from the food network? Maybe you preferred to veg out in front of the T.V. this past year. If so, did you indulge in a vampire cupcake from Baking Bites? And, while you were devouring the last of your vampire cupcake crumbs, I know you enjoyed the all-American supernatural series, The Vampire Diaries. Or, did you prefer the big screen? Were you one of the millions that saw, Eclipse, voted the best vampire movie of 2010? Have you had enough of The Twilight Saga films based on the books by author Stephanie Meyer which have been translated in 38 different languages? A footnote here, the series grossed over $1.7 billion. (more…)

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Posted in Beautiful Women >50, Books, Entertainment, Living, Main, Movies, Products, Products, Recipes/Food, Style | 4 Comments »