Any Shiny Thing - Life after 50
Midlife Fiction
When you hit seventy, the state of California says you get an automatic pass on jury duty if you’ve got a doctor’s note. Either they think you’ve earned the right to say no, or you’re too stupid to participate. [Read more…]
Baby boomers are divorce-prone. Many of us have already gone through one, if not more, and it continues in older age.
Frances McDormand (Gabriel Bouys/AFP/Getty)
Frances McDormand despises our culture’s intolerance of aging. It goes beyond frustration. She’s pissed off. [Read more…]
Research says older people are happier after fifty, that there’s an upswing starting there and going up until forever. I wonder if there’s a moment when you start to notice it? [Read more…]
When I showed my DIL my gray roots, now about two inches, she thought I was brave. She said, a bit wistfully, that her mother still colored her hair, and I thought about the going-gray-divide. [Read more…]
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