I had planned to blog on the morning of my 55th birthday, which was yesterday, but instead I spent 3 hours undoing the damage done by some incompetent hackers, who managed to break my website, yet failed to correctly display their links to information on a wide variety of pharmaceutical products. I still have their [...]

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Today is my 54th birthday. I started this blog 4 years ago, shortly after my 50th birthday. It’s been neglected, mostly because I’m either posting boring stuff on my business blog, or I’m honing the art of drive-by snark on facebook. A lot has happened in the last year: We have a son-in-law. My mother [...]

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Nothing like reading the news first thing in the morning to find out you have double the risk of developing cancer. Good thing I packed the 999 spf sunblock for our beach vacation. That and the pouring rain oughta keep the ‘omas away for this week, at least. Share on Facebook

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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, [...]

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