There is this very cool little boutique in Austin called Emerald’s.  Has gift items, great card selection, great funky shoe collection, jewelry, clothing, it’s so much fun, you can’t imagine.  From the apparel perspective it’s really probably aimed at college girls and twenty and thirty somethings.
However, I took great pride in shopping there well into [...]

Posted on July 14th, 2009 by admin
Filed under: Body Image, Fashion Challenged | 12 Comments »

Ya know, every once in a while you just run out of gas.  I have a post I want to write about my conversation with a sexologist a week or so ago who had such interesting things to say about her work with midlifers.  But, frankly, I’m just not up to it today.
So, I’m just [...]

Posted on May 20th, 2009 by admin
Filed under: Fashion Challenged, Humor, Videos | 2 Comments »

How many times do I hear from women confused and befuddled by what we should be wearing at ‘this age’.  We want to look young and ‘with it’, but we don’t want to dress like our daughters.  So the minute I watched the videos on Sherrie Mathieson’s website, I fell in love with her sense [...]

Posted on April 24th, 2009 by admin
Filed under: Body Image, Fashion Challenged, Job, Love, Midlife Reinvention, Wealth Health | 8 Comments »

I haven’t treated you to one of my rants in a long time, I’ve been behaving.  But I only have so much self-control and so…
Yesterday, I followed up on an email from one of my favorite bloggers, Cindy LaFerle.  She was giving me the heads up about a book she had reviewed on fashion for [...]

Posted on April 15th, 2009 by admin
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In a couple of recent posts, I lamented that in my head I was an impossibly chic, fully accessorized chick with a closetful of crazy shoes to match any and every mood. Emphasis on the ‘in my head’ part. There was a slight gap in my mental image of myself and the reality…well, [...]

Posted on October 13th, 2008 by admin
Filed under: Body Image, Fashion Challenged, Holidays | 6 Comments »

I know you’ve been dying to know whether my trip to Nordstrom’s, via the shoe department was a success. In our last episode, I had resolved to get some badly needed wardrobe help from the personal shopping assistance Mecca known as Nordstrom’s and had been helplessly detoured into the shoe department. I had [...]

Posted on September 17th, 2008 by admin
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Updating your wardrobe, if you’re me, is a chore akin to power washing the outside of the house, or perhaps, re-landscaping the front yard. The end result is oh so inviting, but the steps A to Z getting there are so much hard work that almost the moment the idea comes to me, I [...]

Posted on September 9th, 2008 by admin
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