It’s the most wonderful day of the week

Lynda Davis
August 13, 2018
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Mondays come with multiple benefits. Not only because I'm retired and no longer have to get up at the crack of dawn and go to work but also because Monday is change-the-sheets day. When we're retired, it's often those simple things that give us enormous pleasure. I"ll never understand how people can wake up in the morning and go to work or start their day without making their bed. The only thing lovelier than sliding into nice, smooth, cool sheets at the end of the day is when they're freshly…

Just don’t ask me to bring hors d’oeuvres

Lynda Davis
March 12, 2018
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You're having a pot luck? Great. What can I bring? Dessert? Salad? Veg? NOOOOO! Not an hors d'oeuvre! That's the one thing I hate to do most in the world—right up there with washing the inside of my kitchen cupboards. Even worse, because it requires planning, specialty shopping, fiddling and figuring out how to keep everything fresh/crisp/moist/whatever. And my creations are never as fresh/crisp/moist or as visually appealing as what everyone else in the world can do so much better. It's like the time my coworker tore apart and rewrapped…

Hair today; gone tomorrow

Lynda Davis
March 1, 2018
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The other day I read an interesting blog posting on a beauty and lifestyle site for mature women. It outlined different strategies for coping with thinning hair as we age. Many women our age have the added challenge of hair regrowth following chemotherapy when new hair is often quite different from its pre-chemo state. Our once glorious manes are no more and we're constantly on the lookout for ways to enhance thickness, texture, shine and body. Rogaine is one option for thinning hair, although it's expensive and with limited effectiveness…

The Hudson’s Bay Company welcomes new CEO and this shopper couldn’t be happier

Lynda Davis
February 18, 2018
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Canada's venerable 350-year-old Hudson's Bay Company (for non-Canadian readers it's comparable to Macy's in the U.S.) is getting a new C.E.O. Her name is Helena Foulkes and she comes from CVS, a health-care company with about 9,700 pharmacies in the United States. Since January 2014, Foulkes was the company's executive vice-president and president of subsidiary CVS Pharmacy. As a shopper, loyal Canadian and feminist I'm thrilled with the news and thought I'd take the initiative on behalf of all baby boomer women and make her feel welcome: Dear Helena: Welcome…

There’s work and then there’s ironing

Lynda Davis
January 17, 2018
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Princess Diana once confessed that she enjoyed ironing. I totally get it. Like Di, I find the job of ironing to be somewhat zen-like, calming and relaxing. Ever since I started setting my ironing board up in front of the television to watch The Mary Tyler Moore Show in the seventies, I can honestly say I do not regard it as a chore. But my instruments and environment have to be exactly to my specifications, much like professional chess players, athletes and Glenn Gould. When the world's fastest typist, the…

All The Money In The World . . . doesn’t buy happiness

Lynda Davis
January 12, 2018
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If you're a boomer like me, you probably remember the sensational newspaper coverage of a brutal kidnapping in the early seventies. Paul Getty, the sixteen-year-old grandson of the world's richest man J. Paul Getty, was snatched off the street in Rome and held for ransom of $17 million. The drama played out for several months. Getty Sr. refused to pay the ransom while the Calabrian organized crime ring who kidnapped him grew increasingly desperate. I clearly remember the universal shock and horror when we read that the kidnappers amputated Getty…