aging

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 Beginning of the End: When a Parent Starts to Fade

04.01.2009

It’s not an emergency, it’s not drastic or horrifying. But he’s slowing down, he’s hesitating, he’s struggling just a little as he tries to retrieve a name or a word he KNOWS he knows.

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Barbie At 50, Still A Rolemodel

03.29.2009

Don’t underestimate the reach of the Internet, ever. Barbie Googles, it seems, and she is not happy! With me!!

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Why I Stay Home

03.13.2009

I have another one of those social thingies to go to tonight. I was all hot-to-trot when I first heard about it, drinks at an Irish pub downtown, 6-8pm. I planned the ‘when shall I wash my hair, do my nails’ around it–all the girly stuff that makes going out an anticipatory blowout. But now [...]

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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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AARP: Do You Know Where Your Membership Card Is ???

02.20.2009

The envelope came this week. To be honest, it came as a bit of a surprise. I really thought the mailman made a mistake…..till I saw my name on it. Wait a minute here, I’m not 50 yet. I haven’t wrapped my head around the fact yet…. that I’ll be 50 in September. WOW! It’s not that I don’t KNOW I’ll be 50 this year and in some ways I’ve been preparing for what I want to do for my birthday. But there is a difference between planning a getaway to a spa and a boozy filled weekend with the girls and shoving a “Hey yo, yeah you, you’re old” card in my face.

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MidLife Suicides: Blaming The Victim?

10.24.2008

by msmeta of Adventures at Midlife There’s a startling and rather depressing discussion going on at Tina Brown’s The Daily Beast over the American Journal of Preventative Medicine’s newly released study on baby boomers and suicide: [B]etween 1999 and 2005, the suicide rate lept by 3.9 percent among white women aged 40 to 64, and [...]

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I’m at MidLife and All That I Have Left…

10.05.2008

By Denise of Not What It Seems …is my body apparently.  No longer blessed with even talents for stating the obvious or spouting florid cliches, I am at the mercy of my bodily functions. Or perhaps malfunctions is the better word: Will I sweat too much if I wear this? Will I make it home [...]

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Diagnosis: ‘Over 40′. But what if it’s something more?

09.14.2008

by Susan Carleton of StonyRiverFarm “Well, you’re over forty, what do you expect?” More than one doctor has said this to me when I showed up with a complaint. Chronic headaches, fatigue, aches, dizziness, dry eyes, dry mouth, moles that look funny, foggy thinking and forgetfulness, irregular periods or night sweats, the list of midlife [...]

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On Backorder

09.02.2008

By Ellen of A Girl’s Garden of Menopause Dear Inexorable Passage of Time, We had a deal. I would be giving up wide-eyed naiveté, an unfurrowed brow, and my original jawline. In exchange, I would be compensated by encyclopedic wisdom and unflappable serenity. I can’t find my copy of the contract but I’m damn sure those [...]

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