This tip comes from my pal Amy Edelman, author of Manless in Montclair, a wonderful memoir novel about a widow in the suburbs in search of a new husband. Amy’s advice: Don’t wear more than one pair of glasses at a time. The young among you may say, Duh! But I sense you over-45s out […]
Confused about whether you’re old or not? Here’s a little quiz to help you find out. If someone says it’s “snowing down south,” they’re trying to tell you: a) A shipment of cocaine has just arrived on the south side of town. b) Alabama is having some hella freaky weather. c) Your slip is showing. […]
As the years advance, we full-figured gals have a, ahem, weighty challenge ahead of us. How to hoist the girls as high as possible without resorting to a bra the size of Wyoming? The answer, as with so many things, is money. Any bra that’s going to do its considerable job and still look feminine, […]
Some sports are young and some sports are old. Examples? Basketball is young; baseball is old. Snowboarding is young; skiing is old. Skateboarding is young; roller-skating is old. And golf is old. So old I can’t even think of something similar-yet-different (miniature golf? no; croquet? nah) to put on the young side of the equation […]
All right, you know you’re not supposed to wear granny panties. But what’s wrong with bikinis? Why does acting young have to mean wearing a thong? Thongs are…..uncomfortable. Even the ones that are supposed to be comfortable are uncomfortable. They make you feel like you have an intractable wedgie. Plus, they make you feel completely […]
It used to be, in New York, that young people lived in the Village, and old people lived in Queens. Young people lived on the Upper West Side, and old people lived on the Lower East Side. All that’s changed around now. Why? Money, honey. Young people want to live where it’s cool, but they […]
Or Pam or, God forbid, Dick. There’s a whole generation of names last popular in the 40s and 50s — Karen and Donald, Barbara and Leonard — that you’ve got to avoid if you don’t want to seem old. Of course, you didn’t choose your own name and you’re pretty much stuck with it unless […]
