This is simple. I'm Tishoxen Rider.

Hey friends, in this episode I'm chatting with my friend Christine Bailey who's been on the show several times

first sharing about her work as a farmer and then sharing her good list this past fall.

She's back again and you'll actually hear from her regularly now.

She's officially a co-host of this show, yay, as well as a contributing writer for

the Art of Simple.

So I'm so thrilled about this because she's just so good. She's got so much good stuff to say. In this episode, we're talking about what we wrote this past week.

For Christine, she's sharing ways to celebrate

birthday milestones in your life.

She recently wrote a gorgeous post

about what it meant for her to turn 40 not too long ago.

And then I wrote about my latest thoughts on style and what I'm

learning the older I get, we're actually both 41, funny enough. So in this chat I talk with

Christine about my current beauty in self-care routine, especially focused on hair and skin, because I've actually learned a lot about this too.

So let's get right to it. Here's Christine and me first talking about getting older and celebrating that accomplishment

and then the practicals about taking care of ourselves. It's a really fun chat.

Okay, Christine, this week you wrote about what your 40s are teaching me. I honestly, until you wrote this, I didn't know you were already 40. How old are you? I am. I just turned 41 actually. Okay. Okay. We're the same age. Yeah, we are. That's awesome. Yep. I just turned 40 on

Thanksgiving or 41 on Thanksgiving this year. So it's super fun when it's on Thanksgiving sometimes.

Right, right, okay, that's very cool. All right, so I love this topic because you know I've been writing for about 12 years now when I started the blog I was not quite 30 and so

Wow I know so it's really interesting to me how I don't want to say like I have arrived now I have all this wisdom in some ways I feel like the older you get the more you realize what you don't know and you're kind of more at peace with that and more that just you know

this is how life works but I still feel like oh my goodness I have learned so much

about life and since I started sharing publicly online what I think so I'm really in love with this topic. Tell me a little

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