Of princes, fairy tales & mortality

July 25, 2013
Who doesn't love a good fairy tale?  Even as we grow up and realize how rarely they come true, most of us never lose our appreciation for the happy story, the...
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Awakening from the nightmare of youth

July 23, 2013
Happy birthday to ME! And trust me, I plan to have a really good one! I awakened from the nightmare of youth a long time ago, thank God. Age has brought with it the...
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Confetti and a cocktail

July 2, 2013
This, my friends, is the ONLY way to go through life. With a cocktail in hand and confetti in our hair.  And I believe we women in and past midlife understand this to a...
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Life isn’t short, it’s long

June 27, 2013
How many times have you heard someone say, "Life is short!"  Or said it yourself? It's a constant in my vocabulary, a reminder that we should all make the most of...
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The golden years can kiss my ass

May 28, 2013
So there I was, minding my own business in Manhattan, hanging out with eight girlfriends, all of us in or near the Golden Years and all of us on vacation. After a long...
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Where did the years go?

May 8, 2013
Where did all those years go? I've heard that twice in 24 hours--once in an email from my rebound ex-husband and the other in a comment a Boomer friend...
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Where did the years go?

April 12, 2013
Where did all those years go? I've heard that twice in 24 hours--once in an email from my rebound ex-husband and the other in a comment a Boomer friend...
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Grandma’s still doing Grandpa

April 2, 2013
Anne Lamott wrote a hilarious account of a year she spent on Match.com. A veteran of the online dating site, myself, I enjoyed her well-wrought description of her...
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Aging gracefully: a new defintion

March 26, 2013
Credit If you're a Baby Boomer, aging is probably on your mind.  Aging gracefully is a horse of a different color.  Literally.  Because it means something...
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Tools for aging with independence

March 18, 2013
I don’t want to read yet another story about a senior falling, or fainting and no one finding them for days. Getting old alone can be daunting.It’s a very real...
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