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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.

Start a conversation about bikinis with women around our age, and you’ll find the subject pretty evenly split between those

After writing two posts about how challenging it was to downsize and move, I wanted to write about how absolutely

In our quest to further downsize so we can travel regularly, yesterday we moved in 100 degree heat. Today I

Donna O'Klock's feelings of being conflicted as she pares away her history in order to downsize to tiny living.

Not disregarding all of the years spent playing with my Mom’s laundry basket as a child, my love affair with

Wabi-sabi is a lovely Japanese concept – the appreciation of the beauty found in imperfection and an understanding of the