Wow, dear Beth, I keep reading your blogs, from the first one to the present, and what you write could be a mirror for me! I'll be 52 this summer, and I keep telling myself it's time to really "get with it", get in shape, be healthy, eat healthy, love healthy...I keep starting and stopping exercise, good diet, dancing, and just absolutely hate looking in those damn mirrors in clothing stores and seeing the cellulite bulges and the grey in my hair and the bags under my eyes and the sagging skin everywhere!!--the mirrors and lighting just accentuate the negative! I keep thinking it's time to get a little cosmetic help, even though surgery for superficial beauty's sake is against just about everything I believe in! So hard to break free of the cult of youth we live in, in our country! and what we think women should look like, act like, be like.

Blessings to you and your great blog!
Liora