You know you’re old when your childhood faves are now retro cool. This was brought home to me the past few weeks by two very different events: meeting and interviewing the original cast and director of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, in honor of their 40th anniversary (yikes) and the release of the Ultimate [...]
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Duran Duran and Willy Wonka: I’m Retro!
Posted in Aging, tagged Duran Duran, Madison Square Garden, Paris Themmen, Peter Ostrum, Simon Le Bon, Tim Burton, Willy Wonka, Willy Wonka original cast on October 28, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Accepting that I’m Never Going to Accept My Body
Posted in Aging, Beauty, tagged body image, Diet (nutrition), Fat Acceptance, Health, High school, Mirror, Self-esteem, weight loss on July 28, 2011 | 16 Comments »
I am never going to love my body just the way it is, and that’s OK. Let me explain: Yesterday, I read this post about a woman struggling with her post-baby body. What struck me about the piece was that this struggle is new for her. She talks about how she never had body image [...]
Memories of My Year (as A)broad
Posted in Aging, Family, Travel, Uncategorized, tagged A year abroad, living in Paris, unior Year abroad in Paris on August 31, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Lots of college students spend a year abroad. I spent two years as a broad. In Paris, in my twenties. And lately, I’ve been reminiscing all about it. See, I’m planning a trip to Paris next spring with my mother and my daughter. And it’s been so long since I’ve been there. And I SO [...]
Is Decluttering the same as Saying Goodbye?
Posted in Aging, Family, Kids, Neurosis, Parenting, tagged decluttering, hoarding, memories, throwing things away on August 24, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Not too long ago, I went on a cleaning binge. One of the things I threw out was a poster-sized blow up of a picture of me from my wedding. My husband had blown up pictures from several different stages of my life to decorate the room in which he threw me a surprise 40th [...]
It’s the Away Part of Sleepaway Camp that Gets to Me
Posted in Aging, Family, Kids, Parenting, tagged Packing for camp, sad to send kids to sleepaway camp on June 11, 2010 | 2 Comments »
In fourteen days, my kids will leave for sleepaway camp. You’d think I’d be excited. They are going to have this incredible experience, make lifelong friends, enjoy the mountains, and a lake, and the camaraderie that’s practically exclusive to being at camp. You’d think I’d be looking forward to having some time alone with my [...]
Sex in the City 2 – You’re pissing me off
Posted in Aging, Beauty, Fashion, tagged aging and the sex in the city girls, sex in the city 2, sex in the city the movie on May 25, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The crazy blind dates. The long curly hair. The constant wondering when (and if) I would find Mr. Right. The cosmos. Other than the shoes and the rampantly indiscriminate sex, I could relate to Carrie’s life in the HBO hit series Sex in the City. Of course by the time the show aired I was [...]
(Pole Dancing + Trapeze) x major hair-cut = Midlife Crisis
Posted in Aging, Beauty, Exercise, Health, Humor, Laughs, tagged Aging, Dermalogica, mid life crisis, middle age, Nintendo Wii and Netflix, Pole Dancing, Sexy after 45, Trapeze class nyc on May 14, 2010 | 3 Comments »
I think I’m having a midlife crisis. Why else would I have cut off my hair, gone Pole Dancing and and taken a trapeze class all in the last month? Yep, that’s me on the trapeze…though not me (I mean , seriously) on the pole. I think it all started with my 7th annual 39th [...]
Freebie for Meebie: Dermalogica NYC
Posted in Aging, Beauty, Reviews, Shopping, Skin Care, tagged Dermatologica Store Soho, Mini Facial on May 5, 2010 | 1 Comment »
I have often been annoyed at the fact that while I spend a fair amount of time writing this blog, I earn a whole lotta nothing for doing so. My friend from Beccarama told me that her husband says that there’s no way a whole bunch of men would be writing all of this stuff [...]
Avon Reversalist: Product Review
Posted in Aging, Beauty, Reviews, Shopping, Skin Care, tagged Avon Reversalist, dark circles, Skin Care on April 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
So it’s no secret that I’m none too thrilled with the state of my skin. But neither am I willing to spend a bazillion dollars on creams and lotions for it. I guess the bottom line is, I just don’t believe that it makes all that much of a difference which product you use – [...]
Ageless Body? Yeah, right.
Posted in Aging, Beauty, Husbands, Laughs, Neurosis, Weight on June 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Long ago, I discovered the secret to buying (passably) flattering bathing suits: the worse you look the more you pay. (Hence, the Karla Coletto bazillion dollar(and worth every penny) bathing suit.) I then learned the secret to feeling young and attractive: hang out with the septaugenarians. I’ve bemoaned the new fahion-math: in Hollywood, size six [...]

















