Friday Find: Savvy Travelers Teeth Wipes
When the folks at Savvy Travelers sent us their Jetset Kit and Getaway Kits we both thought it was really practical but only if the products inside them were good….
DNA Testing, Heritage, Health, and Heredity
This morning I was reading The Forward and they had a little blurb about how Wirecutter recommended Ancestry.com’s DNA testing but not 23andMe. As the child of an immigrant with…
You Need to Meet Lisa Orkin
Lisa Orkin is the kind of woman that other women rightly embrace. She’s funny, she’s bright, she’s got a boat load of wacky experiences from comedy clubs to parenting to…
10 Ways that Money Can Buy You Happiness
There’s a special edition magazine from Time which details what we all have known for ages: money CAN buy you happiness. Of course it can. Paying someone else to do…
Levears Specialized Earring Backs: THE Solution for Heavy Earrings
I was having coffee (of course I was) the other day with a girlfriend and we were talking about accessories. I mentioned that we’d been sent some earring backs from Levears….
7 Things Every Midlife Woman Knows Her Vagina Need Not Do
By the time you’ve hit 47 your vagina has either stretched to accommodate a child or been given a hall pass. The good news is that they’re really just a…
If We Had a Queen Leader Her Name Would be Celeste
If the midlife community were to anoint ourselves just one leader it undoubtedly would be the great Celeste Barber. She’s a truth teller. A giggle maker. A holder of mirrors…
Hoop Earrings: The Essential Accessory
This post was sponsored by JTV.com. I was paid for this post and received JTV.com jewelry pieces as compensation. I was in middle school when my mother “got her colors…
Things I Didn’t Learn About the Cost of College Until After the Bill Came
My daughter is off to college in a few weeks and the bill for the first semester has arrived. After the smelling salts kicked in and I regained consciousness I…
A Million Dollar Home in Texas
Stefanie and I were thinking about writing a post about what a million dollars will buy you in a few different regions. With that in mind I started poking around…