midlife - AndBloom

Signed by you

After years of working in the corporate world, Anouk finally dared to follow her creative heart at 50 and started Signed by You. She was apprenticed to an artisan shoemaker for a year and made several pairs of shoes. In July 2022, she launched Signed by You with the first...

I am Dee

Me myself and I

Becoming yourself… Once you understand that’s what life is all about, it feels much more relaxed! It’s about self-acceptance, accepting your good and bad qualities, your beautiful and less beautiful sides, things that you are done with, things you want to do with the second half of your life. ...

Friends Lifestyle

The Power Years

Before I was born my grandmother, whom I’m named after, died at age 49. My other grandmother just celebrated her 93rd birthday, healthy, vibrant, and independent. So, I carry this twin set of luggage. In one hand, the awareness that sometimes you don’t live to meet your grandchildren and in...

I am Dee

I am Denise (43), friends call me Dee. I am a photographer fueled by compassion, curiosity, and a drive to change the current view of society on aging. In my younger days, I worked as a fashion model. Living in Milano, Paris, and London, I traveled the world to work...

I am Dee Lifestyle

Huh?… I-am-40+!

Searching for answers as to how I feel, I’m wandering the internet. But how do I feel exactly? Meanwhile, it has become clear to me that there’s no official recognized name for it, the “phase” I’m going through. But even though there’s no name for it, it doesn’t mean that...

Friends Lifestyle

Good bye, my thirties!

This March I’ve turned 39 and celebrated by going out with my husband to a couple of rock concerts. We drank, we danced, we kissed and tried to enjoy the fact that our daughter was two and that we could finally have some time alone. We overindulged a bit and...

Signed by you

Me myself and I

The Power Years

I am Dee

Huh?… I-am-40+!

Good bye, my thirties!

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