Going Down?
BetsyG’s friend Ron tells a humorous story about the perils of a fading memory.
BetsyG’s friend Ron tells a humorous story about the perils of a fading memory.
BetsyG talks about two distressing signs of aging and why running makes her feel better about it. She also shows off her Dance Dance Revolution (DDR) skills.
When BetsyG’s perimenopausal symptoms went out of control, she turned to an unlikely cure: the Mirena IUD. In this article, she looks at why she tried Mirena and talks about the outcome.
Folding laundry had an odd effect on me when I realized how little was left in the way of little-boy clothes. It was a marker of a life passage that I just hadn’t expected.
Ron doesn’t just hate the sound of oldies music; oldies affect him profoundly…and negatively. This beautifully written essay looks at nostalgia, and offers a philosophical view on what oldies might say about your life.
Where, oh where, has my little butt gone? Is it inevitable that a woman’s butt has to fall? I think it’s happened to me. Check out the video…what do you think?

BetsyG likes to write even more than she likes to talk. Her essays have been published in the Boston Globe Magazine. She has children who would be horrified to be associated with her and her blogazine. BetsyG is a happy divorcée and, suffering from a bad case of arrested development, has no idea how old she really is; her deluded belief is that she's your age, whatever it may be.