Melissa Gilbert, like all women, understands the enormous pressure to avoid aging.

Were going through such changes in our lives, not just physically but emotionally and mentally.

How do we navigate all of this in the current climate?

Melissa Gilbert standing in kitchen

Credit:Modern Prairie | Design: Better Homes & Gardens

What does this say?

What does this say to young women, especially?

We are absolutely against the word anti-agingbecause it doesnt happen, she says.

Melissa Gilbert serving tea

Credit:Modern Prairie

We are all aging.

The question is how youre going to age.

We like to say instead, aging gracefully, aging gratefully.

Melissa Gilbert serving food

Im so grateful that I know what my body needs.

So I’m grateful.

Its not meant to be fancytheir selections are meant to become part of daily life and actually get used.

Melissa Gilbert setting table

Friendships have formed and flourished, which Gilbert has found to be increasingly important later in life.

Theyre playful and dont fit into a mold, which is reflective of the message behind the brand.

Youve heard it a million times, and theyre so much more than that.

I mean, were the ones who are buying it.

She uses differentcolor palettes for the winterandfallversus thespringand summer.

Its also a method she uses to stay connected to the planet.

Its slowly but surely changing, she says.

As long as there are women out there like the trailblazers ahead of me …

These vibrant, vital, sexy, juicy, important women of substance.

Why cant we all be that?