I have good news and bad news. First, the bad. Recent college grads who are women are far less likely to negotiate on salary than their male counterparts. Here’s the graphic:
Why Older Women End Up Poor (and How To Avoid It)
Why We Use Ms.
I was shocked that she was shocked. My young friend was riveted as I explained history to her. MY history, which was only from about 40 years ago. [Read more…]
Too Old for Makeup?
Not Mom.
When Mom reached her seventies, she’d ask me to do her eye makeup for her if she was going anywhere fancy. Now at 89, she doesn’t wear it. The skin around her eyes is too delicate to hold it.
Does anybody care or notice? [Read more…]
A Story of Reinvention
TRUCKER
Excerpted from Middle-Aged Crazy: Short Stories of Midlife and Beyond –
The Complete Collection
by Lynne M. Spreen
In the blue cold of late afternoon, Rita set out a row of traffic cones around the eighteen-wheeler to warn oncoming drivers, but of course there were none. Travelers had been advised not to attempt Donner Summit for at least another day. [Read more…]
A Dream Fulfilled – Seeing Gloria Steinem
You probably have your own dream celebrity, someone you’d like to have lunch with and chat. One of mine is Gloria Steinem. [Read more…]
We Boomers may have tried too hard to give our kids a sense of self-esteem. 
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