Elaine

Fashion Fouls: The Older I Get, the Easier It Is to Make Them

07.22.2009

The fear in the back of my mind, though, is that I could be that woman in the flowered leggings and gym shorts. Maybe not this minute, but someday. It was almost like a premonition.

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Eternal Youthfulness: Is it a myth? Do we even want it?

06.18.2009

At fifty-three, I have to laugh when I hear people claim that fifty is the new thirty, or that aging is all in your head. The truth is, it’s a lot of work to stay young. Which isn’t the same thing as remaining youthful.

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The Grayification of Facebook–and the rest of the world

04.06.2009

…we Americans almost universally associate “greying” with aging. Which is strange considering the fact that I know men who are completely bald by thirty, and we don’t use the word “balding” as a way of referring to states of degeneration.

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The MidLife Issue: Who Are We?

03.10.2009

We just don’t have words in the English language to describe between the pupa stage of our child-bearing years and the full grown butterfly of elderhood.

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