Friend for the Ride Is Going on Holiday
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by Barbara Younger
4y ago
Friend for the Ride is going on holiday. After nine years, I’m ready to pause the blog. I’ve loved the creativity and honesty of blogging, and I’ve loved getting to know my wonderful readers. Thank you so much for visiting and commenting on my posts. My art is going well, so I hope to focus on painting for now. I also may get back to writing picture books or look for markets for creative nonfiction. We’ll see. Egret Contemplates the Day Ahead  I plan to pop back up now and then. I’d be too sad to say a forever goodbye. Please keep sending me any ladies room doors you find, as I will definite ..read more
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The Ladies Room Door Art Series: Viet Nam Edition
Friend For The Ride - Encouraging Words for the Menopause And Midlife Roller Coaster
by Barbara Younger
4y ago
My friend Susan Bellinger toured Viet Nam in January with her husband and two daughters. Oh the places she does go, and the doors she does find. Thank you, Susan! Above, note the pretty door on the INSIDE of the ladies room at a pizza restaurant in the Thai Dien District in Saigon. Susan reports that the outside of the door was quite plain. Here’s the ladies room door at the Breco and Bread Coffee House in Da Nang. Look at the lively entrance to the restrooms at the Shamrock Irish Pub in Hoi An, Vietnam. Here are signs for the public bathrooms in Hoi An. Look at the colorful and very pers ..read more
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What Uterus! A Post-hysterectomy Blog and Facebook Group
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by Barbara Younger
4y ago
Charlene Barber has created a blog and Facebook group for women who have undergone hysterectomies. Here’s the scoop about Charlene and this great resource: So, they say as one door closes, another one opens. This has never been so true for me as when I evicted my uterus, cervix, fallopian tubes, and ovaries! Now for a bit of background. I have recently had a total hysterectomy that included removing the left ovary and fallopian tube (a total hysterectomy with left bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy if you want the more medical jargon). I had the right ovary and fallopian tube removed approxima ..read more
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Who Wants to Be Airbrushed?
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by Barbara Younger
4y ago
Cliff and I took a cruise on the Adriatic Sea last November. Spending a week on the ship felt like we were living in a floating, glitzy village with festivities on every corner. We loved our stateroom… the water and the rainbows… the walking deck… the splashy drinks… the spirited shows… and the shore excursions. (I was nuts over this church in Santorini, Greece.) The ship’s photographers pop up everywhere, especially in the evening when folks are on their way to dinner. The photographers are  VERY upbeat, and they make you feel like a model or a movie star. The photos are posted the nex ..read more
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Attain: A New Product for Incontinence
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by Barbara Younger
4y ago
  A post from the makers of Attain:  Incontinence is one of those subjects that not a lot of people talk about, but a whole lot of women experience. As a matter of fact, approximately 60 million women in the U.S. suffer with stress, urge, mixed urinary incontinence and/or bowel incontinence, and suffer in silence and embarrassment. Accidental leaking can begin after childbirth, when laughing, coughing, sneezing or running, and worsen with the natural aging process. Simply stated, the problem is pelvic floor weakness. Many doctors tell us to do Kegels exercises to strengthen weak pelvic floor ..read more
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Happy 2020 from a New Friend and Me!
Friend For The Ride - Encouraging Words for the Menopause And Midlife Roller Coaster
by Barbara Younger
4y ago
I was born on the 20th of March and married on the 20th of August, so I’m excited about a year with double twenties. What about you? Any resolutions? If you still have cookie tins sitting about, I hope you have some treats left to enjoy during the calm of January. And speaking of tins, guess what an artist can do with them! Cliff found this wonderful boar at the Eno River Farmers Market here in Hillsborough.This spirited boar is the creation of the talented Charlotte Mansur. You can see more of Charlotte’s work on her website here. Don’t miss the video. I’ve decided our new boar friend is a w ..read more
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Happy Holidays from Me to You!
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by Barbara Younger
4y ago
My pilgrimage to the Holy Land made the Christmas story even more dear to me. Camels are a happy part of so many nativity sets. Here’s my camel friend. We only had a minute together, but I cherished every second. I spent a few moments with this lovely donkey too, another Christmas figure. We were in the Judean desert, where I was blown away by the view. Countries from all over the world created mosaics of the Virgin to decorate  the Basilica of the Annunciation in Nazareth. The one below was done in Egypt and is one of my favorites. Scroll through all of them here, noting how each country is ..read more
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Ending Back Pain: A Book Giveaway
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by Barbara Younger
4y ago
As a younger woman, I suffered from bouts of lower back pain. My back is better, thanks to the easy back exercises I do. For others, the solution to back pain is not so simple.  Ending Back Pain: 5 Powerful Steps to Diagnose, Understand, and Treat Your Ailing Back (Penguin Random House) is fresh off the press. This readable and encouraging book by Dr. Jack Stern, a board-certified neurosurgeon and professor at Weill Cornell Medical College, explains most everything there is to know about back troubles and how to cure them. Here’s what the publisher writes about Ending Back Pain: Virtually eve ..read more
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Me and the Western Wall
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by Barbara Younger
4y ago
This fall, Cliff and I went on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. The trip was organized by my good friend, Judy Bown, and run by St. George’s College in Jerusalem. We saw so many sacred and historical sights, it’s hard to choose a favorite. But at the top of my list is our visit to the Western Wall, known years ago as the Wailing Wall.  The concept of this place has always intrigued me– an ancient wall where people go to pray. Even more, I love the idea of tucking a prayer into the wall. I meant to write a prayer on a slip of paper ahead of time, but I forgot. As I waited my turn to approach th ..read more
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The Ladies Room Door Art Series: Portugal Edition
Friend For The Ride - Encouraging Words for the Menopause And Midlife Roller Coaster
by Barbara Younger
4y ago
Susan Bellinger is Friend for the Ride’s first reader and an excellent spotter of bathroom doors. Here’s her report from a recent trip: In my travels, I always keep an eye out for interesting bathroom doors to send to my friend, Barbara, for her blog. I hit the jackpot in  Portugal. What is it about Portugal, where it seems every door was unique, inventive, eye-opening, and/or fun? A British newspaper called Lisbon “the most exciting creative scene in mainland Europe.” Could be!  But not just Lisbon. We found creative door in the Algarve and in Porto, too. Here they are! The photo at top was ..read more
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