Aging is truly a bittersweet saga, full of enormous grace and beauty and crushingly painful limitations. Crushing because no matter how hard you try, the limitations cannot be vanquished. I have met some amazing women: artists and musicians in their mid-80s who are sharp and intellectual, who have beautiful perspectives on life and have many…
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Fluburbs
We are starting to notice and internalize that we are going to live a lot longer than anyone thought. And the odds keep going up. In 1972 here in the states, the average years left, after turning 85, was 5.5 years. By 2010 that had jumped to 6.5, which is impressive! Partly due to a…
Boomer Babies still influence fashion!
WOMEN OF A CERTAIN STYLE Amid fashion’s surge of interest in older women, ‘Iris’ focuses on one of the most singular figures By Ruthe Stein For years, high-end fashion designers have tried to recruit Iris Apfel to wear their clothes as she makes her rounds in Manhattan. The reason they would want to align themselves with her is obvious. One of New York’s most recognizable fashion mavens, Apfel, now 93, attracts attention wherever she goes in her creatively constructed, brightly colored ensembles. Apfel is flattered when top designers come after her, but she couldn’t be less interested. “Why would…
Mind Your Elders
I’m getting some pushback about the term Olderhood. “Why not Elderhood” “Why or Seniorhood” I am asked. “I don’t want to be old.” they tell me. I called it Olderhood because everyone is older than someone. First graders hold sway over kindergarden kids. High school kids disdain the junior high group. Seniors are the elders…
Navigating Olderhood 