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Beautiful Women over 50: Peggy Sands!

Friday, February 25th, 2011

PEGGY SANDS

Peggy Sands is not only a beautiful woman over 50, but she’s an artist that I like a lot. And since I don’t like everything that I see these days that is called “art”, and I didn’t know that she did such beautiful paintings, I wanted to share her with you.

She paints murals. She paints with colors that make me squeal. Go to her website and buy some of her paintings. Or have her make a mural for your bedroom or living room. The world needs more art and more artists like her.

WAITING FOR YOU IN MY GARDEN

Just for fun, I asked her to answer 5 questions recently, and here is what she said:

1. What was the name of the first record you ever bought?

Rubber Soul: THE BEATLES

THE BEATLES: RUBBER SOUL

2. What is the one thing you have to put on or have on that makes you feel good about leaving the house? And, what is your favorite perfume?

It’s a bracelet I got for Christmas that makes me feel really special when I remember to wear it. And Nina Ricci L’Air De Temps is my favorite perfume.

REMEMBERING TUSCANY I

ELAND PASSAGE

BOYNTON CANYON

3. What is your favorite comfort food?

Almonds and raisins maybe? No, wait, I can’t do comfort food – I’m on the diet from hell to try to revive my adrenals and thyroid.

Oh, I know, oatmeal raisin cookies or Miso soup (Can you believe it? Miso? Comfort? So embarrassing!).

4. Have you found the perfect bra?

Yes! One from Victoria’s Secret, I got it years ago and I still like it a lot.

5. What’s your favorite and least favorite thing about being over 50?

I never ever think about it. But, if I have to think about it, the least favorite I suppose is wrinkles and the body falling apart slowly but surely. And the best is loving and accepting myself, and not beating myself up anymore, and becoming whole.

IRIS A MURAL

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Women over 50:: Tidbits of Wisdom

Thursday, February 3rd, 2011

SADHVI

As a woman over 50, I’m amazed at the number of products and plans to help me stay slim, healthy and young. As if I better do something now or else I will get old, ugly and fat!

I had the “Lifetime Achievement Award” from Weight Watcher’s before I graduated from high school. I also knew about the state of ketosis, fasting, and complete protein shakes before I started college.

I remember going on a cleanse and becoming a vegetarian in 1978, and believe me, not only was it considered odd, but so was I.

I even had the perfect morning yoga routine down in 1980 when I was 22 years old that incorporated Pilates! Funny enough though, the older I get the more relaxed I become and all the rituals, along with the “should’s” in my head are disappearing. And I feel good.

Lately I’m meeting more older women who become instant friends, and after talking with them for a short while, I feel like there is some sort of magical transference of wisdom that makes me smile.

For instance, I met Helene at the Swiss Club that I belong to the other night. I was hungry and there was this incredibly addicting spinach dip that was mostly sour cream and mayonnaise.

I looked over while dipping my umpteenth pita chip into the dip, and saw Helene doing the same a few feet away. She looked over at me and we both just laughed.

Helene told me about growing up during WWII, in North Africa, and how they had no food for 2 months and were starving. It was a very hard time in her life. (more…)

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Women over 50: I Trust I am Exactly where I am meant to Be!

Friday, January 14th, 2011

SADHVI

As a women over 50, I’ve begun to feel a change in how I perceive the “younger generation”, in how I react to seeing people in love kissing, in how I am not able to multi-task so easily (and I just started to do that – darn!), and how being overwhelmed is apparently the norm these days. I subscribe to Gwyneth Paltrow’s GOOP. She has some interesting recipes, she’s turned me onto some great food blogs, she writes as if communicating with a friend, and well, she is most definitely on-the-go as you will see by reading a journal of one of her days at the end of this post. I was exhausted jut reading what she does! After reading it, I realized a couple of things: 1) that I will never be in the same league as Gwyneth in this lifetime, and 2) it’s really Ok to be mellow, to be relaxed, because that is what I like. After all, I am just a 70’s girl who happens to love connecting in the year 2011! So here is something that will make you feel good by reading it aloud to yourself, right before you shift to what Gwyneth goes through in a day, bless her heart!

“There is peace within me. I trust that I am exactly where I am meant to be.

I remember the infinite possibilities that are born of faith in myself and

others. I use the gifts that I have received and pass on the love that has

been given to me. I am content with myself just the way I am. This knowledge

settles into my bones, and allows my soul the freedom to sing, dance, praise

and love. It is there for each and every one of us.”
(more…)

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Cool Women over 50: Sadhvi & her new Mac loves everyone and everything!

Friday, January 7th, 2011

Sadhvi

Being a woman over 50, I find that I can take a lot because I like routine and dislike change in my life. Take my computer for instance: while my husband and many friends (even my Mom!) have Mac’s, I got a free pc years ago and it’s been fine. Fine because my monitor is a Sony, my keyboard is ergonomically designed for my comfort level, and my genius trouble-shooter husband has made so many upgrades and improvements to it over the years, including keeping the much-needed virus protection up to date, that I am never really aware of any problems – only he is, and that’s Ok.

Sadhvi's new mini Mac

But all that changed last week when I couldn’t get to my email (I used Microsoft Outlook 2007), and I was not able to access the Internet. I’ve never been addicted to crack or cocaine to experience “cold turkey”, but I imagine that’s what I experienced during those couple of (long) days without a computer: I paced, sweated, and felt very restless – I was desperate to check my email and yes, even Facebook! (more…)

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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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