By Jo-Anne | Published:
February 8, 2012
We ran an article recently (Paula Deen’s Not To Blame for Your Waistline, Y’All) that really struck a chord. Seems like lots of us are simply fed-up with those who blame everyone and everything else for whatever negative thing is going on in life. And so, without trying to sound like a “scolding grandmother,” here’s [...]
By Jo-Anne | Published:
February 5, 2012
I’m sensitive to news releases that focus on the Boomer and After Fifty generation. So when Yahoo! News ran a piece about Boomers and Facebook’s new Timeline (Facebook Timeline feature unpopular, especially among Boomers) I honed right in on it. I read for 5 seconds when I saw the caption on a user map accompanying [...]
By Jo-Anne | Published:
February 1, 2012
He and my husband are great friends – going on 40 years! In addition to being a good friend, he’s also very bright, well-educated, and very (very) comfortable, financially-speaking. So we were surprised by his story. He owns two homes, a principal residence and a vacation home. When he files his federal taxes, he files [...]
By Jo-Anne | Published:
January 29, 2012
A topic of interest at www.AfterFiftyLiving.com recently has been “age discrimination,” especially as it pertains to employment. So I decided to do some digging to see what could be learned. First, employers are smart. They aren’t going to issue age-discriminatory statements in interview situations or elsewhere for the most part. And second, while there are [...]
Posted in Career, ageism |
By Jo-Anne | Published:
January 24, 2012
For 46 seasons Joe Paterno was THE coach at Penn State, racking up a Division I Football coaching record of 409 wins. Then, in mid-season, the child sex-abuse scandal involving Paterno’s former assistant coach, Jerry Sandusky broke into the public’s eye. Sandusky was accused of molesting at least 10 boys over a 15-year [...]
Posted in children, death |
By Jo-Anne | Published:
January 18, 2012
The article could have been written about me: Average Car Age at Record 10.8 Years. And, the article says that because of the economy, we’re hanging onto our cars for a longer period. I personally drive a 2001 Honda CRV and the odometer is quickly approaching 230,000 miles. Every now and then, people who don’t [...]
By Jo-Anne | Published:
January 14, 2012
Yesterday, while walking in a public building, my eyes glanced to a monitor on the wall. It was displaying a saying by Norman Cousins and I stopped to make sure I “absorbed” the message. The saying, “Life is an adventure in forgiveness,” raised my spirits. Isn’t it wonderful to think that we humans really and [...]
By Jo-Anne | Published:
April 17, 2011
Someone just forwarded me an article written by Vivian Diller, Ph.D. which recently appeared in the Huffington Post: Surviving Midlife Without A Crisis: Step One. Dr. Diller is a talented, articulate writer, who makes some interesting points. But I’m going to digress for a moment and say that as I was finishing up this piece, [...]
By Jo-Anne | Published:
March 27, 2011
Vivian Diller, Ph.D. has recently published a thought-provoking article, The Beauty Paradox: When Feminism and Vanity Collide, in the Huffington Post. Diller says that Boomer women are in conflict – over our looks, our appearance and how it all plays out given feminism philosophy. Diller says we have two distinct messages we are trying to [...]
By Jo-Anne | Published:
March 18, 2011
Cosmetic surgery. I’m uncertain about where I stand on the “should I or shouldn’t I” debate. Notice that I didn’t say plastic surgery. There are many reasons when people, as a result of disease or accident, may require and/or benefit from realignment. No. Let’s have a debate about cosmetic surgery.
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