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12/23/2017

This year I finally joined the Boomer Online Shopping movement. 41% of us are in it. Why not...when you can relax on your couch the whole time!

11/16/2017

Does anyone still polish silver? Nothing can tarnish thoughts of Thanksgiving. Much more fun to put it aside and imagine a beautiful table, new grandkids,and wine.

Will my millennial kids and their millennial boyfriends note that I polished the silver for Thanksgiving? No. But they'll enjoy the wine, love with family.

10/27/2017

Thanks LEAD Cincinnati! (And, the universe works backwards... I had two surprise visits and so many good wishes and love. Thank you!)

I am having a birthday epiphany. It literally feels like the dawning of some sort of new Aquarius … I am turning in my Birthday Diva crown.

10/24/2017

I had an epiphany on my 55th birthday. I'm trading in ponies, glitter and glue guns for Old Spice in boxers.

On the morning of my 55th birthday, I am turning in my Birthday Diva Crown and finding the extraordinary in the every day ordinary.

05/16/2017

Thanks, LEAD Cincinnati (now EVERYONE knows about my menopause! :-) )

Yesterday morning I woke up in one of those crazy sorts of sweats. I felt like a gummy bear. It’s the kind that makes your hair frizzy. Like you were in a rainstorm while you were sleeping.

05/12/2017

This is a true story. Looking at my distended belly I said "I am fat." Looking for comfort, I turned to Old Spice, and he said...

How does nothing fit since? My doctor gave me a book, a biography about me, called "Menopause." Not just for those other old people. Menopause is real.

05/09/2017

Thank you, LEAD Cincinnati!

Oh my god … Old Spice is right. I put down my sword. Happily defeated. Old Spice is right. I am wrong. The issue? Recycling.

05/05/2017

Six months into our marriage I find we spend an inordinate amount of time arguing. Wait, let me qualify that. We spend an inordinate amount of time arguing every Tuesday night, the night before garbage day. I was out to prove Old Spice was wrong. Except that he wasn't.

An invitation to tour Rumpke Dump was the perfect way to prove I was right. "Stop spending time sorting garbage. Recycling is fake! Except that I was wrong.

04/12/2017

Thank you, LEAD Cincinnati!

Lauren Chesley is a contributor to LEAD Cincinnati, Venue Magazine and Make it Better, is writing her first book and blogging along the way about...

04/11/2017

The convergence of my son's 20th birthday, the first night of Passover and the arrival of boxes forgotten in storage had me thinking about the "stuff" we choose to keep, family and tradition.

Nexus of my son's 20th birthday, the 1st night of Passover and the arrival of boxes forgotten in storage had me thinking about love, family and tradition.

03/07/2017

Thank you LEAD Cincinnati...In the middle of Restoration Hardware I spy my title...but it's not my book. Now it's my inspiration to create.

Has anyone recently tried to buy anything at Restoration Hardware?

I don’t mean Online. I mean actually walking into the...