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MidLife Reality: The One Body Part You Can’t Get “Fixed.”

05.03.2010

Outwardly, I can convince myself–and pretty often the general public in the right light–that I have stalled the biological clock. And then it happens….

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Dieting At MidLife: Not What It Used To Be

04.26.2010

I tried all the tricks that had served me so well in the past to lose….Nothing worked. Those pounds were beyond pesky; they were stuck to my body in places they had never gone before.

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Watching My Waist

03.08.2010

Then came the earthquakes. A divorce, single motherhood, a bankruptcy. Bing, Bang. Boom. Even though I was an emotional wreck, I never ballooned to outrageous proportions. Still, for the first time in my life I had to shimmy into a girdle to control the overflow of tummy flesh. I was mortified.

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Buying A Bathing Suit

02.19.2010

I just ordered a bathing suit.  It’s still February and I’m looking at swimwear.  I do this every year.  And every year, I pass on the opportunity to clothe my body for a season of swimming.  Thus, every year I do not swim. I do not swim for a variety of reasons–well, at least two. [...]

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My Feet Hurt

02.05.2010

Yes they do. Every day. In almost every way. This, as much as used-up eggs and hot flashes, seems to be a fact of my midlife. Once, in my glory days, I could wear any number of cute little shoes with impunity. They were, in fact, the balm to an ego smashed by a body [...]

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On French Pedicures

09.26.2009

This is a post from ByJane, circa early Spring 2007.  I’m reposting it as an hommage to Jessica Gottlieb‘s recent musings about French Pedicures. I know it’s still winter in the rest of the United States, but here in California we’re already wearin’ our flipflops. Thus, I have been treated to the proliferation of a [...]

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Redefining Hot in the MidLife Dictionary

08.18.2009

I’m also poking fun at myself for being conflicted about no longer being hot–-hot in the sense that people who didn’t already know that I was “beautiful on the inside” thought I was hot.

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Fashion Fouls: The Older I Get, the Easier It Is to Make Them

07.22.2009

The fear in the back of my mind, though, is that I could be that woman in the flowered leggings and gym shorts. Maybe not this minute, but someday. It was almost like a premonition.

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To Dye or Not: An Update

07.07.2009

This chic new look has me fantasizing about Japanese designer clothes and moving to Manhattan. And when I’m not thinking about how much I hate my neck, I’m groovin’ on the cropped hair…

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Unanswered Questions About Cosmetic “Enhancements”

05.07.2009

I wonder how long I’m supposed to keep it up? At what age do I knock it off– Skip the Botox, cancel the personal trainer, go with the uni-brow, and lose the retainer on my teeth at night?

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