By the time baby boomer women reach our sixties or seventies, we have pretty much refined and solidified our style choices. We are generally confident in what we wear. We have learned to be suspicious…
Posts tagged feminism
Thank you Sharon Horgan and British TV for helping me over my reading slump
My usually voracious reading habit has suffered a weeks-long dry spell this winter. I’ve started and not finished umpteen books and just couldn’t seem to get my teeth into anything. That is very unusual for…
Should Americans consider voting for Nikki Haley for President in 2024?
American Presidential hopeful Nikki Haley has suggested that all candidates over the age of seventy-five running for political office should undergo a mandatory mental competence test. It was my husband who brought this gem to…
Domestic violence is an old, ongoing and potentially fatal problem
I was so keen on reading The Castleton Massacre by Sharon Anne Cook and Margaret Carson that I drove two hours east of Toronto to attend an author talk at Warkworth Public Library in August….
You’d be surprised what we can learn from millennials
As I was reading Everything I know about parties, dates, friends, jobs, love, a memoir by Dolly Alderton, I found myself wondering how on earth I could find a book about the love life or…
Will the cosmetics marketers succeed in sucking me in again?
This time for sure I’m going to resist the sirens’ call of cosmetics industry marketers. A couple of years ago I posted a piece about how many unused and unsuitable makeup and skincare products I…