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This is post five of Be Brave. Lose the Beige’s 12 days of New Year’s Resolutions. This resolution is directed at Lady Boomers and their empty nests. Ah, the empty nest, a syndrome that simultaneously fills us with dread and delight. The prospect of our children leaving home potentially evokes a multitude of anxieties. (Often this anticipatory anxiety is for naught when our children...

The feedbag stands by the garage door, just inside and out of the weather. It’s made of a couple of layers of heavy paper, with a glossy, colorful picture of a gleaming, healthy horse and a happy owner on the front. The level of assorted junk and garden waste it holds is rising closer to the top, and when that finally happens the natural course of things will be to put it out with the trash....

Now and then, I’m going to do something different; I’m going to post a poem. Most often they are poems of love wanted, love attained and love lost. After all, love is one on the most universal emotions. Even the seemingly most introvert, the most quiet and subdued has love coursing through their views, whether admitted or not. Here’s the first one....

IrongeezerSays™," While Exercising Be Good to The Environment."By Cliff and Tatjana Eggink We all know that Kermit the Frog says, "It isn't easy being green;" however, it must become the thing to be for all of us, and especially for us athletes and any active outdoor person. After all, “being green” means that we are breathing cleaner air on our runs, walks and hikes, viewing...

"Throw Yourself a Tea Party" is post 11 of Be Brave. Lose the Beige’s 12 days of New Years Resolutions. The white rabbit in Alice In Wonderland kept muttering..."I’m late, I’m late for a very important date" And I say, yes you are! That very important date is with yourself, at least once in a while. It’s a great idea to take a break from stress and schedules and invite yourself out...

On this week's Growing Bolder Radio Show, Marc and Bill interviewed the great-great-granddaughter of etiquette queen Emily Post. Anna Post is pretty hip and has a great new book about wedding etiquette. She's about 18 months too late for my own nuptials (although I am thinking of anonymously sending it to my cousin who wore white to my wedding, but I digress), but it's still packed with lots of...

Two years ago I took up golf. Never in my wildest dreams did I ever think I would take up golf. Hitting a tiny ball into a little hole outside in the hot Florida sun did not sound remotely appealing. Besides, I already had a hobby that could produce as much frustration as any golf match- pottery!. Centering eight or even five pounds of clay on a potter’s wheel could exasperate a cat. In my...