Excerpt from You’re Always 39: How to manage and recover from late career job loss and reinvent yourself, my book coming out in October 2026! Around ten years ago, I was in a video meeting focused on fixing an issue with a struggling product. Customer sales and satisfaction had plummeted, affecting the company’s core business.Continue reading “Hags, Witches and Grams: Images of Aging Women in Popular Culture “
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Nara doesn’t eat cake
A Surviving Facts Blog As I’ve shared before, I’ve spent too many hours— mouth agape except for muttered curse words— exploring the trad wife trend on social media. One of the early influencers in this area— although I don’t think the trad wife category really fits her— is Nara Smith. Nara, now a mother ofContinue reading “Nara doesn’t eat cake”
A horrible, awful, terribly no good year.
A Surviving Facts blog New Year’s Eve— the end of one year and the beginning of another— is my least favorite day of the year. I have my reasons. It’s not really a new year. Before the Romans, ancient societies built the calendar around the rhythms of the moon. A year was supposed to beContinue reading “A horrible, awful, terribly no good year.”
The New Nasty Woman: Marjorie’s Movement
A Surviving Facts Blog What the heck has happened to Marjorie Taylor Greene? Seriously. When did the scales fall from her eyes? And how? What did it? What specifically? Here’s my theory. Supporting Trump has been similar to being in an abusive relationship. Battered women’s syndrome occurs when a woman has been in a violentContinue reading “The New Nasty Woman: Marjorie’s Movement”
My Dogs Are Teaching Me to Fight the Patriarchy
A Starting Over at 60 blog My starting over has stalled. Stalled, stuck, stopped, stuffed. At least it feels that way. Truth is: I’ve been busy. I’m still packing up and unpacking, getting settled and getting used to less space. In typical mom fashion, I’m helping my husband and daughters organize and center. I comeContinue reading “My Dogs Are Teaching Me to Fight the Patriarchy”
Claiming Space
Into the Wilderness: Story 51 My husband and I have worked hard to forge a relationship based on equality, respect and compassion. My husband is almost 70, so when I say we worked hard, I am referring to working through the embedded unconscious bias men his age have. To be clear, he has always beenContinue reading “Claiming Space”
Through a glass, darkly
A Surviving Facts Blog I just finished watching the final season of The Handmaid’s Tale. Watching the show now, in 2025, is a chilling experience compared to 2017 when the series debuted. In 2017, Obama was in his last months as President, Roe v Wade was still the rule of the land, healthcare for allContinue reading “Through a glass, darkly”
The Good Mother
A Surviving Facts Blog I grew up in Tulsa, Oklahoma in a traditional family structure. My mother was a homemaker, always cleaning, cooking and serving family needs. My father was an executive who worked long days and provided well for the family. My mom always wore makeup, coiffed her hair and dressed nicely. The houseContinue reading “The Good Mother”
I fell into the hole
A Surviving Facts Blog The other night, when I couldn’t sleep, I fell into a black hole. This hole has a name: the Secret Lives of Mormon Wives. I was surfing TikTok when its algorithm- I follow professional dancers and apparently one of these housewives is known for her “dancing”- served me a video. IContinue reading “I fell into the hole”
Stymied progress hurts all of us
A Surviving Facts Blog Two news stories hit my inbox within an hour of each other last week. Sadly they both spoke to the inequality of women in the workplace. Here are the headlines: Women lose ground on Fortune 500 Europe. Millions of work hours are lost each year to child care issues, a newContinue reading “Stymied progress hurts all of us”
Walk the Moon 