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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 […]
A Life in Posts
August 24, 2011
My first blog post. Tori, Tori, Tori. She’s one hell of a wordsmith, all right. Like Rapunzel’s hair, Tori’s words spill effortlessly out, seemingly without end. And they don’t even get split ends. So when Tori designated me as the “hilarious Renee Fisher” and gave me the 7 Posts Award: Share Your Best Posts With […]
Fat-Cat
August 22, 2011
(gratuitous use of a popular photo) I don’t think this is a post, at least not in the usual sense. It’s more like a question: Why are so many people on WordPress searching “fat-cat?” I wrote a post awhile ago called “Fat Pets and Fatter Wallets,” one of my numerous clever, enlightening, and ultimately […]
Caution: Downgrade Ahead
August 16, 2011
The Washington Post is calling attention to a number of significant items in our society that aren’t as popular as they used to be. They refer to these as “downgrades.” Victims of the downgrade include the Honda Civic and Gordon Ramsey’s New York restaurant “Maze.” Institutions of higher learning have slipped, as well: Bowdoin College […]
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Life in the Boomer Lane 
The Truth About Fat Cells
September 21, 2011
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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, […]