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Nicola Slade, Writing About the Past: I did know that my protagonist was going to be called Charlotte in a slightly shame-faced homage to Miss Yonge, as well as in memory of our legendary family dog, Lottie CultureWatch: Ladies of Liberty by Cokie Roberts has quality gossip. Even at its meanest, it's well-articulated and pertinent. Patricia Cornwell's prose in The Front moves fast and furiously, like the noire novels of the ‘30’s. The First 30 Days and Just Who Will You Be? represent books review-worthy in the self-help category The Unexpected Jane Austen: Edward the 4th — This Monarch was famous only for his Beauty & his Courage, of which the Picture we have here given of him, & his undaunted Behaviour in marrying one Woman while he was engaged to another, are sufficient proofs Julia Sneden, Going Forth for the Fourth: Carl Schurz, a US Senator and Interior Secretary gave us: “My country, right or wrong: if right, to be kept right; and if wrong, to be set right ” — a sentiment that can be shared by Americans of any political stripe Rose Mula, Who's That Old Fogey Who Claims to Be Me? Even though she has managed to crease my face like an accordion, in my head I'm still seventeen, and I look like Catherine Zeta-Jones |
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SeniorWomen.com credentialed for Democratic Convention but Republicans Refuse: Email or snail mail the RNC to complain so our political reporter, Jo Freeman, can properly cover their convention Being Overtaken, a Carnegie Endowment Report: "China’s economy will surpass that of the United States by 2035 and be twice its size by midcentury" Joan Cannon, Latter Day Lady Godiva: I’m curious about how many of our readers are bloggers and read blogs. There’s something about personal blogs that both intrigues and troubles me States Are Planning for Medical Surge: Some states had not begun work on care guidelines due to the difficulty of addressing medical, ethical, and legal issues in making decisions about which patients would get scarce resources Just the Facts: FactCheck.org broadcasts a weekly rundown of presidential campaign falsehoods. And why you should be suspicious of those chain emails about the candidates OpenSecrets: Forty-six husbands and wives of Congress members reported owning stock in 2006 in companies that have a vested interest in their spouses' committees, worth a total of $27.3 million to $46.7 million |
Joan James Rapp's Yin and Yang on the Yangtze; A Senior's Adventure in the People's Republic of Steps |
Ferida Wolff, Sister Perceptions: Was it time to see each other through new eyes? It wouldn’t be easy. Our assessments were entrenched over decades of automatic thinking. We had to get out of the past and let go of our childhoods Current Reading: The "staycation" is a tiresome, overhyped vacation strategy: Every few years a cutesy new vacation term dreamed up by some marketing types starts making the rounds Joan L. Cannon, Relativity: I try to take comfort in the thought that maybe we can’t climb a mountain if we aspire to that, but we can write about it, paint pictures of it, teach someone else how to do it. If it doesn’t occur to us to simply sit back and be old, perhaps we won’t be quite so fast New government vehicle ratings: Improvements noted but Joan Claybrook points out that ratings for rear crashes, child restraints and rollovers should be included, too |
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Sharon Kapnick, Food Friendly Wines, Part Four, Rosés: Some rosés are simple, eminently quaffable wines, others sophisticated gems. They’re all refreshing and meant to be drunk young, within a year or two of the vintage Roberta McReynolds, If The Cup Fits, Wear It: Shopping for bras is on my ‘Ten Most Dreadful Activities I Will Avoid as Long as Possible’ list. Every two or three years the issue of new bras creeps up to the top of ‘Things I Can’t Ignore Anymore’ list and I literally have to do the math Garden History: "How were gender and its social construction in early modern Italy relevant ... to the conceptualization, design, and uses of villa gardens? In Rome, for example, the papal court was historically unique in being a gendered court, in which ruler and courtiers were celibate male ecclesiastics" Shop for children, home and moms: Scandinavian inspired clothing, smocking, floral bundles, bunny rattles, and Gun Britts pillows Shop for Home: A Forest Grove, OR firm builds roll-up and accordion doors, as well as a bookcase door that can conceal a wall safe, wine cellar, a private retreat – even a panic room We've moved into our new house but will continue our building blog which incorporates aging-in-place and green features. Please join us for occasional and unpredictable posts to the blog |
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BMJ Swedish Study: Self reported sexual activity among married and unmarried 70 year olds ... increased from 1971 to 2001. ... attitudes to sexuality became more positive, and the proportion reporting a very happy relationship increased Current Reading: Ultrasound at center of state abortion wars. Abortion opponents argue women have a right to current medical information before they decide whether to end pregnancies. Abortion-rights activists say the laws are intrusive, arguing doctors and patients, should decide when to use the technology NYPL's The Story of Men's Fashion Told Through Its Rebels and Rakes: Sumptuary laws (which restricted certain fashions to men of specific social status), chivalric codes, spiritual and martial values, dandyism, and the growth of a bourgeois middle class radically altered the nature of men's wear Who do You Exercise With? Women are more likely to engage in sports and exercise activities with family and men are more likely to engage in these activities with friends |
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MIT's Tech TV site's goal is to help not only the MIT community, but others to find science, engineering, and MIT-related video on the web (and to feature multimedia content appealing to and appropriate for people as young as 12) Defining Investor 'Fear Gauge': Another in our continuing and arbitrary adventures discovering financial definitions Report from CEPR, The Impact of the Housing Crash on Family Wealth: This analysis should also prompt serious re-examination of policy proposals to cut Social Security and Medicare for near retirees Baby Boomers feeling gloomy and, no wonder: Pew Research asked respondents to rate their present life: Boomers gave their lives a rating of 6.2 on a scale of zero to 10. Adults ages 63 and above gave rated their lives at 6.7 Daughter Track, n: A career path where a woman reduces her chances of advancement by working flextime or fewer hours to look after her elderly parents; Arlie Hochschild's "an invisible ecology of care" |
