Madonna turned 50 today. Welcome to cronedom! You should be receiving your card from the AARP any day now. I can’t say I’ve ever been a fan of her music or dancing, but I admire her as a (show)businesswoman. I’ll be interested to see if she’s still wiggling it on the stage in her 60s [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Aging'
Happy Birthday, Madonna
August 16th, 2008 · No Comments
Another shout from the pasture
June 29th, 2008 · 2 Comments
I posted the other day about age discrimination. A 50+ friend of mine who has struggled with this issue commented to me via email—he didn’t want to make a public post lest some employer find it via Google. He also sent me a link to this article.
The gist of the article is (1) people don’t [...]
Tags: Aging · News · Working World
Retirement begins at 40
June 25th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Facebook, the fast-growing company that now boasts the world’s biggest social-networking site, is planning to move from its ad-hoc, five-building “urban campus” in downtown Palo Alto to a nearby property that can accommodate the company’s expanding workforce.
Any such move figures to alter Facebook’s evolving internal culture while raising the average age of the workforce in [...]
Tags: Aging · California · Health · Migraines · My Company · News · Working World
Cranky crone at the gym
June 23rd, 2008 · No Comments
I’ve been going to a gym or pool pretty much consecutively for about 30 years, but tonight was the first time I had to leave in less than 10 minutes because I was becoming physically ill.
The booming bass from the spinning class at the downtown YMCA was so loud that I couldn’t take it even [...]
Tags: 27701 · Aging · Durham, NC · Health · Migraines
The Joys of Cronedom
March 8th, 2008 · 4 Comments
Hey! I’m doing well. I only have 19 of the 35 symptoms of menopause.
And no, I’m not going to tell you which 19.
Hot flashes, flushes, night sweats and/or cold flashes, clammy
feeling
Irregular heart beat
Irritability
Mood swings, sudden tears
Trouble sleeping through the night (with or without night sweats)
Irregular periods; shorter, lighter periods; heavier periods,
flooding; phantom periods, shorter cycles, [...]