I’ve been on Medium for a year and a half and I still haven’t introduced myself to you! Maybe it’s about time I did.

Where shall I start?

Just the facts

• 51 years old as of June/2021
• Widowed
• Two kids (grown) and one grandchild
• Friend of animals
• Small town girl
• Own a house and a car
• Write full-time
• Dani Rene is kind of my real name.

I live in a small town smack dab in the middle of Canada. I grew up here and moved to the city shortly after I turned 18. I had my children, worked, went to school (Bachelors of…

I did a Google search for “midlife women” this morning to cultivate some ideas for articles to write for Mid-Life Moxie. Can you guess what I found?

All the results were on a woman’s mid-life crisis! Why? Is that all people think mid-life is for women? One crisis after another?

Ok, I did write this article:

That’s not all my life is and I’m sure that if you are middle-aged, it’s not all your life is either!

There are many joys of being mid-life as a woman that just can’t compare to being in your 20s and 30s. …

I’ve been writing online for many years. 20 years to be more specific. I get more support from people I meet online in Twitter communities, Facebook groups, and other social networks than I do from people who actually know me.

I used to think that it was because my real life people just don’t care about what I do. Or understand what I do. But then I realized, maybe they just don’t know how much their support matters.

Maybe they don’t realize that when they read my book for free at work (where I displayed paperback copies of them for…

I have a vehement dislike for the term “true love” because it limits love. It suggests that if your love doesn’t fit a certain mold or have certain characteristics, it isn’t “true.” It will not last if you don’t “do” love right.

That simply isn’t true though, is it? There are many types of love. Some people have arranged marriages and grow to love their partners. Others fall in love at first sight and live long and happy lives together. …

I bought my first set of tarot cards!

I’m pretty excited about that! I’ve always been fascinated by tarot cards and how they work. I’ve had a couple of card…

I’ve never been a huge fan of audio books until I listened to Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey. I’ll be honest. I choose this book because I love his voice.

I expect something kind of cheesy and somewhat campy. I thought there would be a lot about his career and how he worked so hard to get where he is today. And there is a bit of that. But there is so much more.

A SWEET ROMANCE, MODERN-DAY FAIRYTALE NOVELLA

Introduction: The Red Dress Novellas are sweet romance with a fairytale feel. A magical red dress that is nothing but good vibes for the women that wear it.

Want to know more before you start reading? Or do you need to find the other chapters? Here is the synopsis and introduction as well as all the chapters currently published:

June 1973

“Sandra! Look at you!”

Her grandma pulled her in for a big hug and then pushed her back to arm’s length so that she could check her dress out.

“I told you that butterfly clip was magical! And that dress is…

If there was any character of the 6 on the sitcom Friends that could be described as totally unique it is Phoebe Buffay. She’s a real character.

She grew up on the streets after her mom died and she ran away from home, lived in cars, and sometimes turned to mugging people to get by (including Ross once when they were both teenagers). She has a twin sister, named Ursula, who seems to take great joy in being just mean and at one point acted in adult movies under her sister’s name. …