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Cats Flying Off the Roof of My Car

December 23, 2011

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(The following is the eighth in my new series, “Old Posts to Dredge out on Slow Weekends Because When I Posted Them Originally People Cared More About the Economy and World Peace Than My Blog.” Although nothing has changed, it’s the start of a really slow weekend, blogging-wise.) Miracle is the latest in a long […]

Take my knee. Please.

December 22, 2011

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NBC News yesterday evening came out with a breaking (No pun intended. But I wouldn’t believe that last sentence, if I were you.) story about the upsurge in hip and knee replacements among boomers.  Boomers have long felt that they were only as old as they believed themselves to be. For this reason, they consider […]

7 Quick Steps to Better Sex

December 15, 2011

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AARP has come out with a guide to “7 Quick Steps to Better Sex.”  This is important for two reasons.  One is that the steps are “quick.” If they weren’t, we might get caught in mid-air, forgetting why the chandelier is at eye level and why there is a naked person lying on the bed […]

Easy Rules for Baking Success

December 10, 2011

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(The following is the sixth in my new series, “Old Posts to Dredge out on Slow Weekends Because When I Posted Them Originally People Cared More About the Economy and World Peace Than My Blog.” Although nothing has changed, it’s the start of a slow weekend.) It’s that time of year, again, when we discover that the flour […]

The Aging Brain

December 8, 2011

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In its current Health & Science section, The Washington Post addresses itself to a topic that a lot of people over the age of 50 think about daily, when they aren’t trying to remember why they are standing naked in the garage, holding a spatula.  “The Aging Brain” tells us that, contrary to what scientists […]

Good News for Seniors: It’s Getting Easier to Get A Date

December 6, 2011

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ABC Evening News featured that startling revelation last week.  The latest  U.S. Census Bureau accounting of older Americans has revealed  that the senior population is not only larger than ever before, at 40.3 million, it also includes a larger proportion of men, given their increasing life expectancy. In 1990 there were only 82.7 men for […]

Ur-ine Control

December 1, 2011

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Many people, especially older boomers, often wonder why technology is important.  They mostly wonder this at the exact time they are using technology.  At other times, they pretend technology doesn’t exist. But pretending technology doesn’t exist is dangerous.  Imagine a massive, rabid bear (technology) beating your front door down (your actual front door), clawing your […]

Medicare: Uncovered

November 29, 2011

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Medicare, the federal system of health care for folks over age 65, comes at a really bad time in our lives, since at the exact moment it arrives, all available brain cells are either busy looking for car keys, permanently asleep on the job, or wondering if we have just baked the cooking shears into […]

Christmas in London: Santa is Booked, But An Elf Might Be Available

November 24, 2011

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It’s Thanksgiving and the best way to celebrate is to get in line now for all the “Black Friday Sales That Start on Thursday” sales. The second best way is to post this brilliantly reworked piece about Christmas in London and to hope that the people who read the inferior post  last year are too […]

What does your husband really think of your wobbly bits?

November 22, 2011

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It’s taken over 200 years, but the Brits have finally figured out a way to ruin our Thanksgiving festivities.  The Daily Mail newspaper in the UK has come out with an article titled, “What does your husband REALLY think of your wobbly bits?”  For those of you who are asking, “How come the English people […]