Barbara Rose Brooker

"Once you're divorced, over sixty, you're done," my divorced sixty-one year old friend Melissa says.

"Done what?" I ask.

"Honey, done. These divorced boomer men want twenty-five year old Swedish nannies. All they want to do is take you to Viagra Falls."

"Well, I still believe in love," I...

When you're a divorced boomer, you go out a lot. As a columnist, I'm invited to fundraisers for whales, parking lots, Indian restaurants, you name it. Tonight, I'm at a fundraiser for the foreign film press. In a loft style building, and hottie gay waiters wearing nose rings and attitudes...

I'm divorced, single and past sixty. Friends fix me up with their rejects, or at dinner parties I find myself sitting next to the newly divorced or widowed 80-year old boomer who wants to take me to Viagra Falls. Then a post-50 friend insists that I meet her friend, a...

"Herb is great. He's divorced. Successful and a successful lawyer," India Berman assures me on the phone. "So go. It's time for romance."

"Divorced men are on the lookout for younger women," I say. ''Widowed men want you to sleep in their dead wife's bed."

"So go. He's...

"I'll be in San Francisco. I'll stay only a few days. I can't wait to see you," Debbie, my old friend, says. She lives in Toledo, and is a widow. "We'll go to galleries; I'll take you to dinner. It'll be fun. It's been fifteen years."

"Fun," I say, thinking,...

I'm divorced, seventy-three and looking for love. Friends fix me up with their rejects, or recent widowers who are looking for replacements to sleep in their dead wives' beds. I decide to post ads on the singles sites on line, take my chances. At Starbucks I meet cranky divorced men...

Everything is possible at any age. I'm seventy-three and I want to be a movie star. I want fame, fortune and love. I want it all. Is love possible in this Viagra generation where men take Viagra like candy?

After sixty everyone expects you to get some Botox, and go...