Newspaper columnist Cathy Hamilton was chronicling a personal account of the adventures and misadventures of being a woman over 50 in a weekly column called Boomer Girl Diary for a local newspaper when she began searching online for a community of baby boomer women. What she found was there was not much to be found. And so, Boomergirl was born.
Boomergirl, created for boomer women, born 1946 to 1964, is a community-based website offering beauty, fashion, family, finances, fitness and health advice; information of all sort and the latest news; blogs written by Boomergirl staff and members; clubs to join; …read more

“It is my feeling that as we grow older we should become not less radical but more so. I do not, of course, mean this in any political-party sense, but in a willingness to struggle for those things in which we passionately believe.”
Margaret Laurence
Margaret Lawrence lived a few miles from my mom in a little town called Lakefield and she definitely practiced what she preached! If anyone had a mind of her own, it would definitely be Margaret. I will have to ask my mom for a few stories to share!

“When I first heard the word perimenopause I had no idea what it meant. Now that I’m entering this phase of my life, the several years that precede full-on menopause, I have a much greater understanding.
Essentially, perimenopause is the lead up to menopause which is primarily defined by coming to the end of your period. Unlike when your period started (on that fateful day in grade eight, while you were doing cartwheels in the playground and your friend Paul suggested that you needed to go and talk to the teacher) menopause takes it’s sweet time to set in. So welcome …read more

I am not afraid of aging, but more afraid of people’s reactions to my aging.
Barbara Hershey
How do you feel about getting older? Or are you like my mother who doesn’t give it a thought. That woman just never stops!
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I doubt that Alfred wrote this necessarily with Aging Fabulous women in mind, but that’s the first thing I thought of when I read it.
After you’ve done a thing the same way for two years, look it over carefully. After five years, look at it with suspicion. And after ten years, throw it away and start all over.
Alfred Edward Perlman
Makeup seems to be a very popular topic here according to my records, so this quote says to me, that perhaps the technique we used ten years ago, could be a little dated now.
How have you changed your makeup in the …read more