Alright, friends. We’ve talked about the small stuff: wobbly standing, cranky muscles, puffy ankles, itchy rashes, and sunburns that make you look like a tomato. Now we need to talk about the two villains that actually deserve your fear. Not panic, fear is useful. Panic is not. Heat exhaustion and heat stroke are the heavy […]

 Let’s talk about two things that will ruin a perfectly good summer day faster than a sudden thunderstorm: heat rash and sunburn. One is a prickly little nuisance. The other is a fiery betrayal of your own good sense. Both are avoidable. Both will make you miserable. And both are very, very funny in retrospect […]

You look down. You blink. You look down again. Those are your feet, yes. You recognize the bunion from 1987 and the hammer toe from that unfortunate clog phase. But why do they look like they belong to someone twenty pounds heavier? Welcome to heat edema. It sounds like a medical condition from a Victorian novel, […]

You’ve been productive. Good for you! Maybe you watered the garden. Maybe you took a gentle walk around the block. Maybe you decided that today was the day to scrub the front porch steps because that moss was starting to look like a shag carpet. You come inside, feeling proud. You sit down in your […]

Let’s talk about a very rude trick the human body plays during the Dog Days. You’re sitting outside, enjoying a gentle breeze, maybe watching a squirrel steal birdseed. You’ve been out there for a while, feeling fine. Then you stand up to go inside for that glass of iced tea you’ve been dreaming about. And […]

Well, here we are. The calendar has flipped past the Fourth of July, the hummingbirds are drinking like they just ran a marathon, and your favorite rocking chair on the porch has turned into a griddle. That’s right, friends. It’s the Dog Days of Summer. Now, before you go looking for Duke or George lounging […]

Did ;you know that there is a new day of awareness and action in the United States, dedicated to women’s retirement security. Women’s retirement journeys are rarely identical. Women face unique retirement challenges, including lower lifetime earnings, caregiving interruptions, longer life expectancy, limited access to workplace retirement plans, and competing financial priorities. No one gets […]

There is a particular kind of silence that falls over a life when it arrives at a fork in the road. It is not the quiet of peace, but the hush of a held breath. You stand at the junction of two paths leading in opposite directions: to tell or not to tell, to leap […]

  For Shar, a daughter who passed too soon We will dance and sing till sundown and feast with abandon We’ll sleep when the morning comes Ane we’ll rise to the sound of the bird songs We’ll be here when e world slows down and the sunbeams fade away Keeping time with a pendulum, As […]

Here is the final thing that helps: Give yourself permission to feel good again. So many grieving partners carry a secret guilt. How dare I laugh? How dare I enjoy a meal? How dare I take a trip without them? But here is the truth the long-married eventually learn: Loving someone does not end when they die. […]