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Every Woman is Interesting“I’m so ordinary. Boring. Why would anyone want to read about me?” This was the refrain I heard again and again while working on my book project This Day in the Life: Diaries from Women across America. For each volume in the three-book series, I invited hundreds of women across the country (CEOs, nuns, nursing home residents, models, madams, moms…) to create a “day diary” on the...
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Our Bodies, Ourselves. Not.
Because I’m fifty-three and recently released a book of personal essays, lately I’ve been interviewed by a lot of baby boomers with websites or book blogs. As a result, here is something that has struck me since I’ve visited more and more of these sites. An inordinate amount of boomer bloggers lead off in their “About Me” sections with words to this effect: “I am a...
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Dove Ad Banned??!!You gotta be kidding me. The FCC has banned Dove’s revolutionary and provocative ProAge TV commercial in which, six over-50 women pose seminude in a dignified and non-sexual manner. The commercial, a beautiful and sensitive portrayal of the bodies of real middle age women has been banned in the US because it "shows too much skin". In the ad, the women pose with discreetly crossed arms, legs,...
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Climb Every MountainJeanne Stawiecki is proving that it's never too late to dramatically change your life -- even in middle age. She's scaled tall peaks, run marathons, and kicked some bad habits. Hear what she says about Growing Bolder every day.
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Dove Ad Banned??!!You gotta be kidding me. The FCC has banned Dove's revolutionary and provocative ProAge TV commercial in which, six over-50 women pose seminude in a dignified and non-sexual manner.
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Beverly MahoneThanks to Beverly Mahone, college-aged kids aren’t the only ones tanning it up on the beach. Mahone is the driving force behind the First Annual Baby Boomer Girlfriend's Spring Break and she's making it known that boomers can party too.
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First Rocky and Now RamboTalk about growing bolder! First Rocky Balboa and now angry Viet Nam veteran John Rambo. Lionsgate has announced that John Rambo, starring 61-year old Sylvester Stallone, will be released January 25, 2008.
