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What My Boys Are Teaching Me About Life…And It Ain’t all Pokémon GO
With a husband, two rambunctious boys ages 6 and 12, and zero daughters, life at my home ain’t pretty or dainty. Smelly shoes, disorder, chaos, and household wreckages abound on a daily basis. And here I am, in my 40s, with my inner warrior fiercer than ever, and always ready to put everything and everyone in order. As much as I like to pretend I have all the answers (and boy do they have a lot of questions), I’ve come to realize that my boys are teaching me a lot more than I’m probably teaching them. Here are 4 popular sayings that have taken a new twist in my home.…
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Where are our Rocking Over 40 Latina Role Models?
Latinas who are rocking over 40 are among the most underrepresented groups in the U.S. If you look at popular media and important and powerful Latinas, you can probably count them with your fingers. Yet, when you look around your community, you probably see them everywhere – as entrepreneurs, mothers, career women, artists, innovators, and so on. As Latinas, we need more role models our age. They’re out there, but nobody is talking about them. The media loves to cover successful, beautiful aging Latinas like J. Lo, Salma, Sofia Vergara, and Eva Longoria but to me they are so over the top with glamour and stardom that it’s hard to…
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4 Things to Contemplate on Your Birthday
As much as I love my 40s and believe this is one of the best decades of life, I can’t help but feel a little dread as my 46th birthday approaches. It’s more of a bittersweet feeling really. Every year as my birthday approaches, my heart rejoices at the start of a new year, but it also breaks at the start of a new year. What the heck is going on?!? I’m not celebrating a milestone birthday, I lead a healthy and active lifestyle, my kids are growing and thriving, my husband is rocking, my parents are by my side, I have awesome friends, and I know that between them…
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Do You Live Courageously?
C O U R A G E. Now there’s a word that incites different feelings for people. A word that some identify with and others don’t. When I was in my 20s, I didn’t consider myself courageous. As a matter of fact, when I thought of courageous people, I thought of people like Rosa Parks fighting for civil rights, or Amelia Earhart, who literally gave women wings in a male-dominated industry. I thought of firemen who raged wild fires risking their lives every day, or soldiers who fought and died for the freedom of our country. A courageous person was someone whose impact, bravery and actions affected millions and created…
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What Age Do You Feel at Heart?
A few days ago, I conducted a quick poll on Facebook to determine what age most Rocking Over 40 women feel at heart, regardless of their chronological age. A resounding majority feel younger than they really are…a couple of DECADES younger, as a matter of fact. Ooh-la-la! There were a minority of women who felt their age or much older and it was primarily due to illness, an unhealthy lifestyle, or overall exhaustion. To check out the results on Facebook, click here But generally, women in their 40s and 50s feel in their 20s at heart. I’ve often heard 40 is the new 20, but I think that is a flawed…
