A style blog based on a fifty-something Baby Boomer doing her best to age gracefully.
Earlier this year, I introduced the Women of Grace series. I debuted the series with Jeannie of Gracefully 50. The reason I started this blog was to highlight spiritually mature ladies that are aging gracefully and healthy while looking great yet dressing age appropriate. I am sorry to say that too many women especially African […]
This year has been full momentous historical anniversaries, like the 50th Anniversary of the March on Washington and the Rev., Dr Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” Speech, but I can’t help but recall that day in history burned into many American minds when on November 22,1963, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated. […]
Breast Cancer ribbons aren’t the only way to bring attention to a women’s health issues–so is men’s facial hair! Movember is an annual, month-long event involving the growing of a moustache during the month of November for raise awareness of Men’s health issues, such as prostate cancer and other men’s cancers; and associated charities. The […]
I’d like to believe that my millennial daughter–Channing in the City–inherited her sense of style from me. I have to admit as I continue to mature and age gracefully, she educates me in the area of style and fashion. Today, I would like to devote this post to how, my fashion forward reporter/stylist daughter keeps […]
It’s that time of the year again, scarf season. Who knew wearing scarves had such early beginnings? As early as 1350 B.C. Egyptian Queen Neferti wore a finely woven scarf topped by a conical headdress. In Egyptian culture, scarves were viewed as a social status symbol. Queen Neferti was one of the first known scarf […]
I know Underdog is not the most revered cartoon caped crusade. I just like what the superhero stood for. Shoeshine Boy’s alter-ego Underdog, appeared whenever his love interest Sweet Polly Purebred was being victimized by villains as Simon Bar Sinister or Riff Raff (don’t you love their names). When villiains threatened, Shoeshine Boy, ducked into […]
We know too well the statistics that affect women concerning Breast Cancer but do you know the horrendous statistics with domestic violence? Not only is October Breast Cancer Awareness Month but slowly there is another dangerous cloud looming over many women, domestic violence. It’s only over the last nearly 20 years that Violence Against Women […]
Peplum jackets, dresses, and tops experienced a revival as a fashion trend in 2012. I see why, it’s an easy look to amp up your everyday style that most body types can sport, even a curvy girl like moi. Let’s take a step back in fashion time history to look at the beginnings of the […]
Did you know 1 in 3 women will have cancer in their lifetime and 1 in 8 will have breast cancer? October is Breast Cancer Awareness, the annual national calendar focus to bring about awareness for women to get a mammogram and reminder to perform monthly self-checks. Breast Cancer Awareness is an effort to raise awareness […]
Just like there are signs of changing seasons, as we ease into fall, there are signs of someone with mental illness. Mental health problems are rampant, it is obvious the mental health system is gravely broken. What can we do to help those with signs and symptoms of mental illness? Are their red flags with […]