Women Talk Video 8: Aging Parents

In this Aging Parents episode Lauren and Joan discuss the harsh reality of watching your parent’s get older. In two words; it’s rough (I wanted to say “it sucks”). Witnessing your once vibrant parents become more fragile is tough stuff but something we all deal with by the time we reach our 40’s and 50’s…

Coming Up Roses! The Best 5 Rose Perfumes

Valentine’s Day has come and gone and what are you left with? Dead roses. Not me. I would rather have a bottle of rose perfume I can wear all year long. Make that several bottles of rose perfumes. Truth is, I can take or leave a dozen roses but I cannot resist rose fragrances.

Check Out Our Fashion Week Parody On Instagram

We decided to have some fun in the name of fashion this fashion week on our Instagram account (@fountainof30). Why can’t a 40-something lifestyle blogger walk the fashion week runways? Carol and and I had the brilliant idea to overlay my head on models walking the runway during New York Fashion Week Fall ’17 and now we are continuing it through London and Milan.

Women Talk Video 7: Health In Your 40’s

In this episode Lauren and Joan discuss health in your 40s. Both women have endured a major surgery which neither were expecting nor even considered possible in their 20’s. They both know other women who have been through worse. Some things you can avoid through taking care of yourself, but others are just the luck …

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Go Red Or Go Home! Women and Heart Disease

This past February 3 marked the 15th Annual National Wear Red Day which was started back in 2003 to bring national attention to the undisputed fact that heart disease is the #1 killer of women (it kills six times more women than breast cancer), and to raise awareness of women’s heart health.