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A New Take on Wrinkled Hands
My first memory of wrinkles came in my early 30s listening to Aunt Mary banter with her sister, my grandmother. They joked about each other’s wrinkled necks with my grandmother’s neck being likened to a bowl of chittlins. We howled with laugher. And I never forgot...
Denise Lampron | May 19, 2022 | 0 Comments
For Every Face There is a Flower – Happy Spring!
It’s Spring and nature seems to signal that with the profusion of colorful flowers on hillsides, along highways, clinging to bushes of finely-landscaped homes and smiling on apartment balconies. With Spring comes aliveness, vibrancy, and flowers burst through the...
Denise Lampron | Apr 15, 2022 | 0 Comments
Is it giving up, or is it surrender?
As 2018 comes to a close, I've been reflecting on the journeys, stories, laughter, changes, challenges and lessons from 2018. I learned to get out of my own way, the power of vulnerability and how to rumble with co-workers as a form of leadership. I managed my...
Denise Lampron | Jan 4, 2019 | 3 Comments
Aging in Color – The Secret Power of Being Yourself
It's my pleasure to introduce Cathy Williams of Seasonal Color Consultants. Her blog, Aging in Color, is timely and informative. Aging is a verb, which implies movement. I love the concept, as suggested by Cathy, that we are aging (moving through time) in color! As...
Denise Lampron | Sep 28, 2018 | 0 Comments
When the Goddess Creates Boundaries Within Her Commitment
As many of you know, I’m passionate about the aging woman and the aging community at large. In a conversation this morning with a government employee working in an aging department of the County, I was given an opportunity to teach The Art of Mindful Aging, a...
Denise Lampron | Aug 9, 2018 | 0 Comments
Gumdrops in the Forest
Years ago, one of my teachers referred to following gumdrops in the forest as a way of listening to how and what the Universe was communicating to me. And it would only be ONE gumdrop at a time, not a box full with a message and map! That teaching has served me...
Denise Lampron | Jan 16, 2018 | 8 Comments
10 Things I’d Tell My 30-Year-Old Self
I stumbled upon a website dedicated to serving professional women in their 20's and 30's. I perused it anyway. I was stunned and amazed at what these young women were doing. They are entrepreneurs of the noted millennial sort. Juggling family, schedules, decisions,...
Denise Lampron | Nov 7, 2017 | 2 Comments
The Gift of Growing Older
"Growing Older is Inevitable, Aging is Optional." -Dr. Christiane Northrop Dr. Northrop makes a fine distinction between growing older (unavoidable chronological age advancement) and aging (decline and degeneration). If growing older is inevitable, then why not...
Denise Lampron | Sep 8, 2017 | 4 Comments
The Arc of Aging – A Tale of Disappointment and Acceptance
Disappointment I carried on as I always had, thinking and living as if I were 45, with plenty of time, choices and options that I could exercise at will. I was in my own anti-aging bubble, unaware that the aging blows were about to change my life focus. They...
Denise Lampron | Aug 4, 2017 | 10 Comments
Changing Your Brain Can Lead to an Ageless, Graceful, Happier Life
The only thing I knew about SMACK was that I could get arrested for using it. Today's innovative version is free with wonderful side effects for your body and brain. According to Denise Medved, S (strategic planning) M (memory and recall) A (analytic thinking) C...
Denise Lampron | Jan 13, 2017 | 0 Comments
