Dear Beauty, Today I’d like to introduce you to my new best friend whose name is MyFitnessPal©. Okay, so she’s not a real person and hardly replaces the many friends I’ve cherished over the years; but since this program is acting as my friend and coach, it’s fun to think about what she’d say to me if […]
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Dear amazing woman, So what is the the PERECT age?  If you’re 10, you have unlimited possibilities ahead of you. If you’re 90, you have no worries. At 20, living on your own is adventure packed, yet at 70, a host of life-long friends support you. Maybe it all depends upon the individual woman and how
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Dear Beauty, Years ago, when we were having a bad day, Grandma would say, “Well, the first 100 years are the worst.†And then she’d laugh to assure us that better times were coming. When I planned this series, I wanted to celebrate a woman who had actually lived those 100 years. Even though the 2010 census tells us that
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Dear resilient woman, Last night, my brother, Dr. Len Whalen who lives in Florida, called me about our series on age. As an avid supporter of the Whalen Voices blog, he made an interesting observation about people in general, inspired by the inspiring women we’ve been featuring this summer. He said that there seems to be two types of people
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Dear wonderful woman, The years speed by, just like this journey we’ve been on, celebrating women who are turning a new decade. I hope you are able to catch glimpses of your own life as reflected in the lives of these gracious women. Looking back, when I was 15, I wondered if I would ever
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Dear precious woman, When our children are young, we teach them: NEVER ask a woman her age. I’m sure it makes no sense to the young mind who counts age as a victory; feeling smug to be older than her sisters, brothers and friends. So what’s the big deal with age? I really don’t have an answer,
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