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An Award is Better Than A Punch in the Nose
September 24, 2011
Nancy of notquiteold has nominated me for the Versatile Blogger Award. So I have to write seven things about me and then nominate 15 other bloggers. Here are 7 tasty tidbits about me: 1. I’m an only child. 2. I don’t ride a bicycle. 3. My food choices are on par with a five year […]
The Truth About Fat Cells
September 21, 2011
More, the magazine for “older” women who are now young enough to be the children of Boomers, gives us a bit of interesting and alarming information that all of us should pay attention to. According to More, “fat liposuctioned from the hips could reappear in as little as 12 months. The body defends its fat, […]
Ms Freshly Pressed Answers Your Pressing Questions
September 19, 2011
I’d like to thank all the folks who responded to my Freshly Pressed post entitled “A Guide to Life After 50.” I’d especially like to thank the ones who commented using actual words contained in the English language. Many of you expressed comments that showed a real awareness of the world and of your place in it. […]
A Guide to Life After 50
September 13, 2011
AARP, the folks who used to be scary until we woke up one morning and realized we were one of them, continues to be concerned about the likelihood of us embarrassing ourselves because we have inadvertently lived long enough to remember the day rocks were invented. They present a list of Don’ts by world-renowned author Jacqueline Mitchard. […]
Who are “they” and why are they running our lives?
September 12, 2011
For more years than even Boomers can count, “they” have been telling us what to buy, how to think, where to live, and who to read about in US Magazine. Examples throughout the millennia include: “They are saying marinated mastodon kebobs will be the next big food item.” “They say the world is flat, and […]
How to Tell if You are in Washington State or Washington, DC.
September 7, 2011
(Thanks to Tim Knight!) Seattle is located in Washington State, about as far away from Washington, DC as is humanly possible. But, because the word Washington sounds an awful lot like the word Washington, there are a lot of tourists who ask the DC Visitors Center how far they are from the Pacific Ocean […]
Don’t Trifle With Chocolate
August 30, 2011
According to ABC News, the consumption of chocolate is good for the heart. Five of seven studies of over 114,000 people linked HIGH CHOCOLATE CONSUMPTION with a 37% reduction in cardiovascular disease risk, and a 31% reduction in stroke risk, when compared to low chocolate consumption. Well, you can toss that broccoli out the window […]
How to Be Old Without Calling Attention to Yourself
August 28, 2011
(photo credit to: www.osocio.org) Many of you might notice, as you cross the threshold of fifty and then sixty, that as you age, entire other populations of people seem to be getting younger. Doctors, especially, seem to have gone directly from playing with plastic medical kits to wielding sharp, scary metal instruments, usually in […]
Running for Her Life
August 25, 2011
I heard her cries coming from the research carrel next to mine at the Holocaust Museum. Her name was Irene, a short middle aged woman, staring, as I was, at a computer screen. Hoping, as I was, that a relative’s name would appear that might prove that family members lived in more than stories told by aging […]
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Life in the Boomer Lane 
How to Take Care of People Who Are 60 Years Younger Than You
September 26, 2011
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Some of us might have noticed that the age span between us and our grandchildren is wider than between that of us and our children. This is especially pronounced if we gave birth to our own children at the tender age of twenty-something, but, unlike us, our children felt the need to delay the production […]