Let me introduce a new element to the burningdaylight.blog series of columns, called Dar & Dor, featuring we two radio gals who are back together, minus the radio! Darlene McCarthy Barnfield and Doreen Iudica Vigue still can’t/won’t shut up. So, we’re continuing our conversation here once a week for those who remember us fondly and … Continue reading Dating: The New World Order
DOR – I am too young to retire according to a new NYTIMES article. WHAT???!!! Our society wants us to work until we drop dead. Yeah? No? DAR – When my late husband, Michael, retired in his early 60’s so many people were aghast and asked him what he was ever going to do to … Continue reading READY TO RETIRE? Depends on what sex you are.
DOR- The upcoming election season has me thinking about age. Are you ever too old to do anything? I think the answer lies not with the number of years you’ve been alive but with how well you’ve borne the blows. I have a friend whose parents are in their 90s and are still skiing! Oh the … Continue reading What Am I Too Old For???
AKA PRICEY…. DOR – Dar, explain to me this phenomenon known as “quiet luxury.” I saw a TIK TOK video – of all people – the actor, George Hamilton explaining how his Loro Piano blazer sits silently on his fake-but fabulously-tanned frame, barely whispering it cost a fortune. What’s driving that, do you think? LOUD … Continue reading Quiet Luxury
ARE YOU FLIGHT FIT?????? Dar-One of my many long held beliefs is that no good can ever come from revealing your weight, age or the number of sexual partners in your past. However FINNAIR and other airlines are beginning to challenge that sacred philosophy by asking passengers to “voluntarily” step on a scale before they … Continue reading Dar & Dor
Fashion Fail? DAR – What is going on with Kanye West’s wife? Her wardrobe (if you can call the barely there outfits a wardrobe) scream, “I am a sex slave/fashion muse of an ex Kardashian family member in Frankenstenian pursuit of an old Kim in a new Bianca.” DOR – First of all who amongst … Continue reading Dar & Dor Q & A
“I’ve had to buy all new clothes” exclaimed a great friend of mine who came to dinner the other night wearing fabulous faux leather slacks but having shed the 35 extra pounds she had been carrying on her for years. Wow, I thought. “I’m not even hungry,” (double wow) she told me, ordering the tiniest … Continue reading A MAGIC BULLET
It was not a pretty sight, I can tell you that. A bit frightful as well, truth be told. But it provided a valuable lesson. And isn’t that the case with so many unfortunate happenings when you choose to be an optimist and take the good with the bad. It happened during my first kayaking … Continue reading A Cautionary Tale
An old friend used to say “Proper Preparation Prevents Piss Poor Performance.” And so, as we are all going to get older, and then, finally, old, we should really start preparing for our best older age now. If you’d like a preview into what that elder world could look like, just have an injury. It … Continue reading The 6 P’S
I am in the midst of tracking my life. Why? To make it a better life, of course.Engaging in the act of closely observing how I am now living and then springing into action to make corrections where needed. ‘It’s a good thing,” as Martha Stewart would say, and I highly recommend it. For instance, … Continue reading Habitual Happiness
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