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I'd been hoping for a daughter who would play with dolls as I used to do. Instead I had a son with a passion for trucks (the noisier, the better). It was not what I expected, but I've learned to like surprises. [more]

My new beauty role model is well into her 60s, and neither lifted nor Botoxed. She has given up stilettos, sheath dresses, eyeliner and a husband. When I'm having a bad face day, she reminds me what beauty really is: the artless confidence that comes with letting go of whatever constricts a woman's best self. [more]

When we rented a getaway cottage in Maine one long-ago summer, we pictured ourselves eating fresh-caught lobster on a deck overlooking the water. Little did we know we had rented the homeliest of yurts. [more]

A new breed of woman entrepreneur is proving that sometimes the best employee is your husband. Rona Maynard gets the inside story from four of the pathfinders. [more]

The scars and sags on my body are like dings on a well-used car. But to me these so-called "imperfections" are mementos of where I've been and what's happened along the way. [more]

Like a good marriage, the good friendship bends and expands to accommodate life's transitions. [more]

My sister Joyce and I share a complicated heritage of rivalry, love and disappointment. For years we didn't speak. Then at last we were able to embrace possibility instead of standing guard against pain. [more]

I tried to shield my child from the pain of loss, but losing is an art that every child needs to learn. [more]

When a woman in her 50s or 60s becomes pregnant, she has another shot at youth. But what does she lose? [more]

Liberation means no more search and rescue. [more]

What's it like becoming a formerly important person? Rona Maynard tried to do it by the book [more]

It was perfect in every way, as if the hat gods had created it just for me. But I told myself I couldn't afford it. [more]