Confessions of a fashion tween
May 30, 2007
By Denise Glaser Malloy I have hit that magical age of clothes shopping, when you are no longer able to shop in the Junior department with a straight face but not yet ready to give up the fashion ghost to matching polyester separates, K-Mart slippers and white socks like my ...
Getting down with what's up
May 25, 2007
By Jeanne Marie Laskas - Special to The Washington Post The phone rings. I recognize the number on my caller ID as Erik, a young man I employ from time to time to assist me with office work. "Hello?" "Hey, what's up?" he says. Um. What's up? I have to ...
Baby boomer math
May 18, 2007
By A. Wellikoff As we baby boomers age (ooh, did I say that word)? I meant, “get better and better”, we must remember that age (damn, I said it again) is just a number. You see, 25, 64, 103, they’re all just numbers. And who cares about numbers, especially big ...
I’m turning into my mother
May 12, 2007
By Karen Roberts I have a picture on my mantel of some women and children wearing beach clothing and big smiles. A friend saw it and said, "Oh, that's a great picture of you." I pointed to the 4-year-old in the photo with the Cheshire cat grin and said, ...
Top 10 things boomer women want
May 10, 2007
By Toni Giarnese 1: To fan the flames of our inventive genius and rummage in optimism’s closet. 2: To build safe harbors and surround ourselves with the ones we love, unafraid to let our tears run freely as salt. 3: To live life with la passione, grapple with compelling issues, ...
Weighty matters
May 7, 2007
By Denise Glaser Malloy By the time you read these words, it’s a safe bet that I have once again broken my New Year’s resolution to stick to a diet. In my 46 years on the planet, I’ve been on every diet known to womankind. Most of my life has ...