I had a simple, but profound experience in the swimming pool not that long ago – I floated on my back for the first time in my life.  I do know how to swim and enjoy being in the water, but for some reason I never was able to figure out how to float on my back when I learned to swim as a kid and as an adult it hasn’t really been something that has come up as an issue in my life (although it has always been something that I wanted to learn, felt a bit embarrassed about not being able to do, and also didn’t quite understand).

Have you ever spent time with someone who INSISTS at looking at the dark side of things? Aren’t they exhausting?

(Confession before we go any further – I have, on occasion, been that person.)

Despite the vast strides made by women and the women’s rights movement over the last 50 years, the fact remains that society – the workplace, the media, the home – is unfair to women. It can be pretty disheartening, to say the least.

I’m not a fan of the phrase “midlife crisis.”

In 1965, Canadian psychologist Elliot James coined the phrase to describe that time in a person’s life when they begin to confront the idea of their own mortality.