Aging & Appearance

Superwomen at Yale

The name conjures up a special cachet in America lore. The nation’s second oldest college. Alma mater of Presidents. Hillary and Bill met there in law school. Bastion of the old boy network. Captains of industry sent their sons for 300 years. But not their daughters. Yale was all-male—until 1968 when in the midst of […]

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Imperfectly perfect

While everyone is still feeling warm and glowy about their moms, I feel a little guilty to go rogue…. and point out a Mother’s Day comment I read on Facebook: A friend described her mom as “imperfectly perfect.” I like it because it fits perfectly into what I was planning to write about today—the pursuit […]

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29 Again: A fable

What a concept. A woman blows out her candles on her 75th birthday and makes a wish—to look like she’s 29 again. Who couldn’t relate to that? Only in this story, it happens. She wakes up the next morning—and there she is—looking and feeling like her 29-year-old self with her 75- year- old brain and […]

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OMG: Overcoming my generation

Lately the universe is conspiring to give me a shove over some invisible line….into a demographic group where I don’t belong. Nothing against the rest of you….. but I never signed up for this……. Boomer? Technically. Senior? No thanks. Especially when the label is attached to a piece describing how we’re dinosaurs in this […]

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No excuses needed

You know those people who spend hours at the gym every day and claim they LOVE to exercise? I don’t buy it. I’m convinced they’re faking—or aliens. Me, on the other hand— I’m normal. When it comes to exercise, I’d put myself someplace in the middle of the bell curve between Madonna and Kirstie Alley. […]

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A celebration of cleavage

It popped up on the calendar today, and I’m pumped up. Just in case you’re behind the curve on boobs, and you thought October is the only month that targets breast awareness…..Today is National Cleavage Day. I’ll spare you my humor, it would only fall flat. Lady Gaga is involved. And so am I— I […]