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Showing posts with label Women of a Certain Age. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Women of a Certain Age. Show all posts
Friday, January 28, 2022

anger, part one

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I've been sick this week-- not deathly ill, just viral yuckiness. I did finally get a covid test yesterday, which came back negative tod...
Wednesday, March 24, 2021

the morning sun when it's in your face really shows your age, which is terribly unfair.

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I told you last fall that I suddenly realized I was a senior citizen, but I don't think I ever told you how that happened. There were a...
Friday, February 26, 2021

7ToF: Flatly I'll stand on my little flat feet and say: this post is all over the place. Good luck.

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1. For some reason I had the urge to watch South Pacific this week, the 1958 version with Mitzi Gaynor as Nellie Forbush. It's an exper...
Tuesday, January 26, 2021

Fashion for Seniors

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When I was in high school back in the 70s, there were all kinds of fashion trends that were way out of my financial reach--especially design...
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Tuesday, September 22, 2020

ch ch ch ch changes

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When I have my occasional a-ha!! moments, after they're over, they often seem so obvious that I'm a little embarrassed it took me so...
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Friday, September 4, 2020

Friday deep thoughts

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Mountain ash tree in our backyard Maybe the only thing that is really true right now is that we are all alive. If I'm sitting here typi...
Tuesday, August 11, 2020

Mentor in training

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Another memory: about ten years ago, I was eating dinner with a group of friends, mostly my age except Liz, who is about fifteen years older...
Tuesday, August 4, 2020

exactly how experienced are we?

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Here's a memory: my grandparents were disapproving-- in the purse-lipped, silent way their generation did so well-- when I proudly told ...
Tuesday, July 14, 2020

Call me Hecate

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I told you a couple of weeks ago about my newly discovered crone status, and of course I've been thinking about that quite a bit, since ...
Friday, May 22, 2020

7ToF: changing my demographic, headaches, and my favorite Kind bar

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The color of spring 1. Years ago, I realized one day that one of my best friends was the same age as my younger sister (i.e., less than ...
Friday, April 17, 2020

Day Whatever; getting better at balance

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I decided a couple of days ago that I needed to stop being online so much, so I spent the last couple of days being offline. Mostly. But tha...
Wednesday, April 15, 2020

Day 19: in which I revisit (of all things) skin care

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I told you last fall how tired I was of listening to women I admire go on and on about skincare . As I said at the time, it's not that I...
Friday, December 20, 2019

7ToF: my favorite books of 2019, and some odds and ends

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1. Have you looked at any of the dozens of "best books of 2019" lists that have been published in the last couple of weeks? Maybe ...
Friday, October 25, 2019

7ToF: BETWEEN TRIPS, which means I am both happy to be traveling, and also completely nuts

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Very cool succulents at Desert Botanical Garden 1. We went to Phoenix last weekend for a trip that was business for Dean, and nothing bu...
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Friday, July 26, 2019

7ToF: Catching up, reunion version

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1. Remember how I smugly told you in my last post that I never buy books from amazon anymore? Yeah, well, less than TWELVE HOURS later I bou...
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Friday, November 16, 2018

7ToF: how much of this stuff can I take?

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1. I had a bad migraine today (as I'm typing this, it's Thursday), so I'm not sure I'll make it to seven things today. But I...
Wednesday, September 19, 2018

Types, and my formative years

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I think most of us around here are about my age, in our fifties, a few of us a bit younger, a few a bit older. So we spent our early, format...
Friday, September 14, 2018

7ToF: Oddly happy

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1. It is an absolutely gorgeous fall day here, while on the East coast they are bracing for hurricane Florence. We have family in the Caro...
Friday, September 7, 2018

7ToF: I'm Nobody! Who are you?

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1. It's a commonplace these days to say that women in their 50s are invisible. If you haven't experienced it, lucky you. You can rea...
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Friday, August 31, 2018

7ToF: in which we discuss fitness for couch potatoes

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If you're someone who already has a fitness routine or exercise program going, move along, there will be nothing for you in this post. T...