The Ramblings of an Aging Woman…

Risin’ on the grouchy side of a Metaphysical Monday but cloudy and kittens kept me up all night mood related. I have nothing in life to be grouched towards. In fact, past my surfaced mood I feel will surely leave me by the afternoon I am holding major blessings in the spirit and excitement that […]

Summer is hittin’ different each season, each year I grow older. For the longest time it felt like I couldn’t get goin’ in my favorite season…but being the late bloomer I am in life I found a way to embrace it. I got back into my habit of layin’ out in the pool half nude […]

New Season brings New Content! Many changes coming to the page –> with that, I want to know what kind of content you want to see! More advice (answering those inquiries once a month!), Grandma/Mom Life, Plants, Health/Diabetes/Wellness, Travel & More. Feel free to email me at – askshugahmomma@gmail.com with anything you’d like to see […]

No New year, new me resolution to come about this winter, this 2023…just another year, always an ever changing me was reminded of thee. Typing this from my Queen chair on the back porch embracing the seasons shifting to a warmer state and all the gardening love that is going to bring. And like the […]

I walked in the door a few days after Christmas feeling the holiday hangover harder than any whiskey I’d ever got my drankin’ on with. In my mind I said to myself, ” I was over the holiday.” So, now I find myself on this Wellness Wednesday taking care of my mind and body, slowly […]

Put it in the dirt someone wise beyond her years once told me. The dirt can take your pain she said. I did not realize in that time that gardening would become my cure-all in the days turn to years of grieving, sadness, anger, confusion…I could go on. I did not realize losing myself in […]

She is a woman on the verge of fifty with gray and silvered hair, no longer youthful chasing a Summer tan, but an aging gardener who wears sunblock and sits in front of an infrared lamp for the good good rays. She can cry with the best of them but make no mistake about it […]

It’s been well over a year since the last blog. From Spring to Spring here we are. Most of the time the things I have to say, need to say, just chase each other around and around in my head. I rarely put them in a journal these days…it has only been most recently did […]

Appreciating the sunsets later and later, and patiently waiting for that long Summer June day…the favorite season. I will take Spring, kiss off Winter with a middle finger if it brings the favorite season about. The swim all day, walk the beach, chase the sun, eat lighter, wear less clothing, grow things in the garden […]

She changed the door to the color red, where they saw anger and sorrow She saw roots and passion. She changed her hair from red to gray, where they saw an aching aging She saw roots and passion. She changed the day from gray to white, where they saw the anxiety as something scary in […]