Author Archives: Claire Haye

The joys of being a klutz

I have noticed as the years pass that my friends are wearing out. It seems to me that my more athletic friends (the ladies that were actually good at sports) have had more surgeries on worn out knees and shoulders than those of…

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Whew! My book is finding friends!

I am delighted that the Guide is finding an audience. I am not sure how this is happening since I have been in a serious, there is too much snow and cold here in New Mexico, slump. There is a definite warming trend…

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Reading out loud at SOMOS, January 6th

I am delighted and slightly nervous. I will read from A Modern Woman’s Guide on Wednesday, January 6th at SOMOS. I intend to read a smattering – all the human parts and avoiding the heavy science that is of course part of the aging…

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A Wonderful Mention In NM Magazine

How nice -a friendly and encouraging mention in the January 2016 edition of New Mexico Magazine. And I am getting orders for the Guide. This is all new to me -writing a book and finding readers who discover my book. .. just what they did not…

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November 30th New Yorker

There are two terrific articles in the November 30 New Yorker 1. “OUR BODIES OURSELVES An artisanal funeral home” Good news – a new generation of funeral directors/earth mothers are offering a modern take on burial practices. Or is their point of view…

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A New Way to Purchase My Guide

Here is a new way to purchase my Guide: The Modern Woman’s Guide to Aging will be available for purchase at Taos Folk. Taos Folk is an annual “pop-up store’ that will open Friday (Nov. 27) at 10 a.m., at the Stables Gallery…

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Report from the Emotional Front

I “enjoyed” the conference: The Path to Truth and Purpose: Transforming Shame. It was held at Rivera Funeral Home in Santa Fe New Mexico. Well, in truth it was on park like grounds of Rivera Funeral Home housed in a beautiful spanking new…

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Celebrating Older Women

bonnieleeblack.com Check out Bonnie Lee Black. Her website and blog is full of stories and interviews. She celebrates vital women over 70 years old with sympathetic and interesting conversations.  Bonnie has a great spirit, is a fine chef,an author and an adventurous traveler.

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My Very First Reading

Applause. I hardly expected it. Well, I enjoyed reading smatterings and snippets from my Guide and I appreciated my audience of women and a few good men. Thanks you all. This weekend I am going to Santa Fe to participate in the Transforming…

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Tea and Reading

Tea anyone? And me reading from my book. Please join me in Taos at Valverde Commons Community Building for tea, cookies, maybe apples, possibly pop-corn, who knows lasagna, conversation , a reading of my Guide and a following discussion. Free to all who…

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