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10 Gems From Making My Facial Into a Fellini Movie

... layers of potion-soaked gauze strips crisscrossed over my aging visage. Blind, Mute, & Contained The "bandages" cover my mouth and eyes, leaving only a blowhole at the nose through which I’m able to breathe. ...

17 Thoughts on Being Old and Grey

... chance to know or understand the great freedom that comes with aging. 6) Whose business is it if I choose to read or play on the computer until 4 a.m.? Or to eat popcorn whenever I want to be buttery ...

18 LOL Grouchy Granny Quips

Susan notes: Maxine, the star of Hallmark's Crabby Road series of cards and products, is the invention of Hallmark artist John Wagner, who 
says she was inspired by his mother,
 his maiden aunts and his ...

20 @JaneFonda TEDxWomen Quotes

... as an arch. That's the metaphor, the old metaphor. You're born, you peak at midlife and decline into decrepitude."  "A more appropriate metaphor for aging is a staircase -- the upward ascension of the human ...

5 Hints To Recreate Your Life After 45

Guest blog post by Judith Glynn   Birthdays after 45 can trigger the "what if" question. Could past choices have been different? Or did you have it all and now face a challenging future with less? Are ...

50 #TEDxWomen Quotable #Quotes

SheQuotes quotes women exclusively on Twitter and Facebook. Fifty quotable quotes from TEDxWomen 2011 are listed below. If you use these quotes, please attribute them to the women who said them. Get ...

7 Tips To KickStart Your Creative Juices

... layers of potion-soaked gauze strips crisscrossed over my aging visage. Blind, Mute, & Contained The "bandages" cover my mouth and eyes, leaving only a blowhole at the nose through which I’m able to breathe. ...

AnnMarie Thomas On Turning Kids into Circuit Designers

... Circus Lab), Toy Design, Product Design for an Aging Population, and Brain Machine Interfaces (seminar). She organizes the School of Engineering Design Night (featuring the ENGR320 Machine Design competition), ...

Backwards Is Brilliant!

A palindrome reads the same backwards as forward.  This video reads the exact opposite backwards as forward. Not only does it read the opposite, the meaning is the exact opposite too. This is only ...

Bette Davis (Actress)

... no other offers. Shortly before filming was completed, the producer Darryl F. Zanuck offered her the role of the aging theatrical actress Margo Channing in All About Eve (1950). Claudette Colbert, for ...

Carmen Dell'Orefice (Model/Actress

American model and actress Carmen Dell'Orefice (born June 3, 1931) is known within the fashion industry for being the world's oldest working supermodel. She was on the cover of Vogue at the age of 15 ...

Cynthia Kenyon (Biochemist/Geneticist)

Cynthia Kenyon is revolutionizing our understanding of aging. As an expert in biochemistry and biophysics at the University of California at San Francisco, she is particularly interested in the influence ...

Dorothy Hamill (Figure Skater/Olympic Champion)

... Hamill doll was made in 1977. She quickly became "America's Sweetheart." Hamill was an Ice Capades headliner from 1977–1984. She was asked to join Ice Capades by an aging Donna Atwood, who had been its star ...

Ellen Dunham-Jones on Sustainable Suburbia

... widely recognized as a leader in finding solutions for aging suburbs. She is the co-author of Retrofitting Suburbia: Urban Design Solutions for Redesigning Suburbs. She and co-author June Williamson ...

Glam DJ Granny Mixes Tunes In Clubs

The latest party circuit princess to wow the night clubs and festivals of France with her DJ skills is a British granny who took a shine to the decks after going to a birthday disco for her grandson. ...

I'm A Middle Aged Woman LO

Susan notes: This very funny ode to aging by "demented" Seattle singer/songwriter/comedian Lisa Koch (at her pal Vickie Shaw's birthday bash). Pix of Lisa's many personalities show up in the middle ...

In Praise of Older Women

Susan notes: This delightful piece was written by columnist Frank Kaiser. A version of it, falsely attributed to CBS commentator Andy Rooney, has been circulating by e-mail (see the end of the article ...

Jane Fonda's Third Act? Stairway to Heaven

Within this generation, an extra 30 years have been added to our life expectancy -- and these years aren't just a footnote or a pathology. At TEDxWomen, Jane Fonda asks how we can think about this new ...

Kathleen Cameron (Changent/Artist)

... corrections, education, intergenerational communications, aging, environment, conflict resolution, cultural citizenship etc. Work with all media, in all disciplines, everywhere. Committed to bringing ...

Older, Wiser, Better And More Silver Today :)

... both platonic and romantic. That’s a good thing, because love is an excellent anti-aging agent. Here’s what someone wrote me today: Did you know, Susan, that whenever you feel love, you literally begin ...

Rachel Carson (Scientist/Writer)

... for a full-time teaching position to help support her family. In 1935, her father died suddenly, leaving Carson to care for her aging mother and making the financial situation even more critical. At the ...

Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette (Novelist)

... bloomed following the publication of Chéri (1920). Chéri tells a story of the end of a six-year affair between an aging retired courtesan, Léa, and a pampered young man, Chéri. Turning stereotypes upside-down, ...

Suja Lowenthal (Politician / Planner)

... of Aging and the Los Angeles City Attorney's Office as the Coordinator of its Domestic Violence Unit.  She also has over 10 years of experience in the water industry serving policy roles in the Central ...

The 23 Amazing TEDWomen Speakers Of TEDGlobal 2011

... Kenyon (Biochemist/Geneticist) Cynthia Kenyon is revolutionizing our understanding of aging. As an expert in biochemistry and biophysics at the University of California at San Francisco, she is particularly ...

The Wooden Bowl

A frail old woman went to live with her daughter, son-in-law, and four-year-old granddaughter.   The old woman's hands trembled, her eyesight was blurred, and her step faltered The family ate together ...

Why Women Go To The Toilet In Pairs

... it around your neck, (Mum would turn over in her grave if you put it on the FLOOR!) down with your pants and assume ' The Stance. In this position, your aging, toneless, thigh muscles begin to shake. ...