About Andrea Pflaumer

Author of Shopping for the Real You, Andrea Pflaumer, is a non-fiction writer in the San Francisco Bay Area and host of the video series, Vital, Vivacious, and Visible after 50. She has written extensively about fashion for local and national publications and is a regular contributor to the Huffington Post, Better After 50, Sixty and Me, She Savvy, and Prime Women. Her free ten-lesson course, A Lazy Person's Guide to the Perfect Wardrobe, is available on Highbrow.com.

Guess I won’t be invited THERE again…

About three weeks ago I got invited to participate in special event at Saks Fifth Avenue called "Ageless Beauty." A panel of four women at different age groups (I would be representing the baby boomers, of course) were invited to give their reviews of nine beauty and skin care products. I was a little bit wary but it sounded like fun so I said, “yes.” Click to read more >

2024-05-05T12:58:06-07:00

Ask Me Anything event online Monday

Folks, I got invited to participate in a website called Ask Me Anything (www.amafeed.com) It's a cute site that invites people to post a topic and then be available to members as they write in questions. Next week they are hosting a week of fashion discussions and my AMA will start on Monday, February 26th at 11:00 PST.[...]

2020-06-08T15:18:43-07:00

An elevating story

After decades teaching Transcendental Meditation, just for fun I volunteered to write a short article for some friends to publicize their new pet supply store. I sent it off to our local newspaper and to my great surprise, they published it. And to my greater surprise, the editors asked me to write another piece: a 400 word article...about lingerie. When it was published, one of my friends commented, "...but I thought you were a spiritual person!" Well, even spiritual people need underwear. [...]

2020-06-08T15:18:48-07:00

Purging My Closet… and Learning to Breathe

IMG_5420Summer ended abruptly this year. Overnight we went from hot wind-whipped days of Indian summer right into the rainy season. That weather change always triggers the annual migration of my summer clothes to the guest room closet (can’t fit everything into our small closets) and the winter ones into my bedroom closet. I love this process because it gives me an opportunity to do one of my favorite things: purge [...]

2020-06-08T15:19:09-07:00
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