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Donna O’Klock

Donna O’Klock spent 35 years in the beauty business, talking, teaching, and learning. These days, she’d “rather write than talk. It’s better that way because I can edit.” She writes two blogs, sexypast60.com and damnedgypsy.com, and is the author of  Sick and Tired & Sexy: Living Beautifully with Chronic Illness.

Austin, Texas, has been her home since 1978, but she and her fiancé have downsized and are traveling the country in their RV.

I was thinking about the 1975 song by Eric Carmen, “All By Myself,” where the refrain (over and over and

According to Webster’s Dictionary, separate is a verb. We separate our lights from darks when doing laundry, our refrigerated goods

Brenda recently asked if we still prepare meals. Many readers who left comments said they still enjoyed cooking; a few

  After paying $5.00 for a tiny basket of tasteless, organic cherry tomatoes at a farmers market earlier this summer,

There’s always something to be grateful for. Sometimes you just have to look a little harder to find it. That

Lots of us have, and regularly use, some version of the Serenity Prayer. This is mine, short and sweet: Not