A fresh new project for 2026!

     I only have about 20 years left before I get there.  So, I am beginning a quiet but intentional effort—a website and social spaces devoted to honoring women as they age. Now in my very early sixties :-), I feel like an outlier in a culture that insists on endlessly chasing youth.  I find myself confused about and sometimes sad by what that chase has cost us. While I'm not racing toward aging, I'm also not running from it.  I have always loved old people, even when I was a kid.  The way they listen and talk and share and love... I've lived a while and worked pretty hard expecting a good time for my lifelong efforts - LOL!  Now, when it's a couple of decades from my turn, folks are changing the game?  Nah.  No, sir.  Nope.  It's almost my turn to be a living treasure: safe harbor, gentle guide, steady heart, and an example of freedom and a joyous journeyman.

     So many people I meet carry a restless sorrow, longing for a youth that cannot be reclaimed. Perhaps they missed moments they wish they’d lived more fully; perhaps they simply weren’t taught how to love the seasons as they change. I don’t pretend to know. What I do know is this: I want to grow older with grace, with beauty, and with sweetness.

For years I’ve said—half-joking, fully sincere—that my goal is to become a sweet old lady. And like any goal worth reaching, it deserves care, study, and intention. My mother was a sweet woman, but she did not live long enough to become an old one. So I am setting out to learn how and to live mine and her portion :-).

     This project is an invitation. I know there must be others out there who occasionally see a sweet old lady whose glow is mesmerizing and whose aura hugs folks and feels full, whole, and damn near complete.  I’m asking for stories, interviews, research, and lived wisdom about women who are already there—women who embody kindness, steadiness, humor, and depth. Ladies who still choose to dance their way through this thing called life.  Together, I hope we can uncover the practices, values, and ways of being that help us age not with bitterness, fear, fakeness and constant angry fight, but with open hands and generous hearts. If you, too, are happy to be alive and well and are excited about age-hoppin' with your free-spirited blessed fine self, and you feel called toward this way of growing older, I invite you to walk this way (in my Run-D.M.C. voice).  Follow me and get your mind outfitted for the party that doesn't stop. ;-)