No one loves a social gathering more than me, but I draw the line at this new trend which sees friends of first time grandmothers ( no matter how fabulous, Jane and Goldie) throwing parties for them. Not for the sheer joy of welcoming their friend’s first grandchild into the world (which would be great) … Continue reading NEW GRAMS-GREEDY OR GLAM?
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- 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???
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
If we all looked as magnificent as model Carmen Dell’Orefice, we would all go gray. But there is a huge part of me that thinks that she is an anomaly and that going gray is a little bit like giving up. Or, at least, giving in. For the life of me I cannot remember the … Continue reading Going Gray Or Giving Up?
Age is so much more than a number. I was suddenly awakened to that concept just the other day when for the first time – now that I am in my 60’s – I calmly recognized that I had already lived many more years than I had left. Which is to say, I am getting … Continue reading Act Old Later
“I hate your hair!” Honestly, those were the first words that came out of my good friend’s mouth upon seeing, for the very first time, my transformation from straight haired lass to a newly curled one. I had decided two weeks prior to get a perm (a la Glenn Close in FATAL ATTRACTION), thinking it … Continue reading Filterless Friends
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