Middle Age

The Baby Boomers Commencement Address

Marc Middleton | Posted 05.26.2012

Read More: Reinvention, Commencement, Baby Boomers, Middle Age, Inspiration, Growing Bolder, Commencement Speaches, Marc Middleton, Middle-Aged, Entrepreneurship, Boomers, Motivation, Fifty News

In a very real way, we're all graduates of the school of life and we all have the opportunity to continue to grow and contribute. So here's my commencement address for all of us approaching or inhabiting middle age and wondering what's next?

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'Why Should I Be Happy About Being A Grandmother?!'

Vivian Diller, Ph.D. | Posted 05.21.2012

Today, for millions of women who are reaching that stage of life, is about more than just vanity. It raises other complicated feelings less common among women from previous generations. For better or for worse, grandmas are just not what they used to be.

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Time Is, Indeed, a Goon

Ann Bauer | Posted 05.13.2012

Read More: Jennifer Egan, Regret, Middle Age, A Visit From the Goon Squad, Children, Breakups, Divorce, Books News

There are bad memories, too. My once-strong young husband lying on our kitchen floor, telling me he was done and bone tired and once he got up he was going to leave.

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Trial by Water: Loving Your Colonoscopy and Other Rites of Middle Age

Howard Barbanel | Posted 05.07.2012

Read More: Anesthesia, Prostate Cancer, Colon Cancer, Colonoscopy, Gastroenterology, Gastroenterologists, Prostrate Exam, Movi-Prep, Middle Age, Healthy Living News

It has been said that getting older is not for wimps. Among the great joys men experience as they slide into middle age is the prostate exam whereby o...

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Should Married People Have Crushes?

BetterAfter50.com | Jeannie Muchnick | Posted 05.23.2012

Read More: Married Crush, Marriage, Infidelity, Crushes, Middle Age, Older Women Dating, Love Over 50, Middle-Aged, Middle-Aged Women, Love Post50, Dating Over 50, Mature Dating, Senior Dating Sites, Fifty News

SPECIAL FROM BetterAfter50 I’m married –- going on 21 years in fact –- but have a crush on my cute, younger-than-me-still-has-hair allergist....

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How Old is 'Old'?

Posted 05.03.2012

Read More: The Middle Age, Middle Age Definition, Social Security, Middle Age, Senior Citizens, Middle Aged Women, The Middle Ages, Pew Research Center, Middle-Aged, Old Age, Marist Poll, Middle Aged Men, Fifty News

If age is indeed a number, where do Americans draw the line between middle-aged and elderly? To people age 45 and younger, the line of demarcation...

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5 Ways Boomers Have Changed The Culture: Study

Huff/Post50 | Anthonia Akitunde | Posted 04.27.2012

Read More: Education, Middle Age, Future, Boomers, Millenials, Spirituality, Fifty News

Whether its through fantastic offspring, a genre-shifting piece of work or a successful business, the idea of leaving behind a lasting legacy is a pre...

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The Secret to Aging Well -- Not Keeping It a Secret!

Vivian Diller, Ph.D. | Posted 05.28.2012

One thing that continues to surprise me is how some people seem shocked when I admit my age.

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The Unnamed Bicycle Column: Punk's Not Dead

Keith Brown | Posted 04.29.2012

Read More: Biking, Bicycles, Bikes, Getting Older, Middle Age, New York News

The sun, wisely, was still sleeping when I arrived for the ride, my headlight leading the way to the start line where a growing gaggle of cyclists lin...

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When Are We Old?

Alan Elsner | Posted 04.25.2012

Read More: Middle Age, The Bible, Social Security, Lewis Carroll, Pew Research Center, Shakespeare, Old Age, Old-Old, Fifty News

The advent of another birthday recently prompted me to ask myself: At what age does a person stop getting older and actually become old? In other words, when does old age begin?

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"The Invention Of Middle Age": A Cultural History

HuffingtonPost.com | Laura Rowley | Posted 01.17.2012

Read More: Aging, Patricia Cohen, Middle Age, Midlife, In Our Prime: The Invention of Middle Age, Midlife Crisis, In Our Prime, Patricia-Cohen-New-York-Times, Fifty News

Middle age is a cultural fiction -- a construct that emerged in the last 150 years through a confluence of factors, including industrialization, moder...

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Just Do It Because I Say So

Elizabeth Boleman-Herring | Posted 03.11.2012

Read More: Iyengar-Yoga, Yoga, Panic Attacks, Bks-Iyengar, Poetry, Hinduism, Asana, Authority-Figure-Hubris, Middle Age, Francis W. Parker School, Fifties, Performance Anxiety, Patanjali, Sixties, Anxiety, Chicago Grammar Schools, Mindfulness, Healthy Living News

I was 12 years old, and there was no way one could "get out of" the eighth grade at the Francis W. Parker School of Chicago without memorizing and reciting the poem. Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "Kubla Khan: or, A Vision in a Dream: A Fragment," to be precise.

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Celebrity Culture's Unrealistic Veneer On Older Motherhood

www.parentcentral.ca | Posted 01.17.2012

Read More: Celebrity Moms, Middle Age Pregnancy, Women, Middle Age, Pregancy, Pregnant, Older Mothers, Pregnant Celebrities, Celebrities, Fifty News

How are older mothers portrayed in popular culture? This is a trick question, of course, since older mothers are rarely depicted on television and ...

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Remarriage In Midlife: Why Bother?

Deborah Gaines | Posted 05.16.2012

Read More: Marriage, Middle Age, Love, Remarriage, Divorcees, Older Women Dating, Love Over 50, Love Post50, Dating Over 50, Mature Dating, Senior Dating Sites, Fifty News

Don't get me wrong: I'd love to meet Mr. Right. I am hard-wired for a long-term, live-in relationship. In many ways, I am happier with a partner than without one. I just don't see why I should remarry.

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Levittown: The Baby Boomer Story, Part 3

HuffingtonPost.com | Saki Knafo | Posted 12.25.2011

Read More: Baby Boomer, Long Island, Levittown, Baby Boomers, Middle Age, Growing Up Levittown, William Levitt, Steve Bergsmen, Aging Baby Boomers, Fifty News

Over the few weeks, for a three-part series on the history of the baby boomer generation, The Huffington Post interviewed four men and women in their ...

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Are You A MAMIL?

www.high50.com | Posted 12.14.2011

Read More: Cyclists, Nimby, Mamil, Acronyms, Middle Age, Humor, DINKY, Mid-Life, Middle-Aged, Bicycling, Lombard, Cycling, Lycra-Suit, Mid-Life Crisis, Fifty News

If anyone were looking for evidence that in the 21st century we are just as snobbish as ever we have been, then you only have to look at the acronyms ...

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An Older Generation Falls Prey To Anorexia

www.empowher.com | Posted 12.14.2011

Read More: Calorie Restriction, Women, Middle Age, Anorexic, Anorexia, Extreme-Weight-Loss, Anorexia Nervosa, Health Post50, Eating Disorders, Mid-Life Crisis, Fifty News

Because most people associate eating disorders with adolescent girls, it may surprise them to learn that there are quite a few middle-aged people suff...

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Is The 'Midlife Crisis' Just A Myth?

Scientific American | Jesse Bering | Posted 12.10.2011

Read More: Midlife Crisis, Midlife Crisis Myth, Baby Boomers, Middle Age, Boomers, Midlife, Fifty News

If you ask a person when "middle age" begins, the answer, not surprisingly, depends on the age of that respondent. American college-aged students ...

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Is 50 Really the New 15?

Vivian Diller, Ph.D. | Posted 12.02.2011

Read More: Adolescents, Mid-Life, Hormonal-Changes, Middle-Age, Fifty, Empty Nest, Teenagers, Agism, Fifty News

As someone well into my fifties, the popular aphorism "50 is the new 15" makes me laugh. Who are we kidding? Sure, being 50 today means something different than it did for our parents. But 50 is simply the "new 50!"

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True Or False: Test Your Menopause Smarts

Sun Herald | Posted 12.02.2011

Read More: Hot Flashes, Sex Drive During Menopause, Middle Age, Menopause, Health Post50, Sun Herald, Lubrication, Menopause Symptoms, Hormones, Sexuality, Fifty News

The Change. The Change of Life. Or simply, menopause. It really doesn't matter what you call it, the facts are the same. But, why do we have them so c...

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We Invented Reinvention

Dike Drummond, M.D. | Posted 11.29.2011

Read More: Makeover, Middle Age, Midlife Makeovers, Remembering the Past, Makeovers, Nostaligia, Middle Age Makeovers, Self Reinvention, Reinvention, Fifty News

In the last 60 years the world has changed so radically that when you sit down with your own children and tell them what it was like growing up... they look at you like you are from another planet. We are the reinvention generation.

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Recession Put Middle-Aged Americans At Greater Risk For Hunger: Study

The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 11.14.2011

Read More: Hunger, Middle Age, Unemployment, Food Secure, Food Stamps, Third World America, Great Recession, Hunger in America, Food Insecurity, Aarp, Food Insecure, Recession, Food Security, Video, Business News

If further proof were needed of the far-reaching harm caused by the Great Recession, it would seem to have arrived in the form of a study from the Uni...

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The Ten Commandments Of Turning 50: A Manifesto For All Ages

Barbara Hannah Grufferman | Posted 09.20.2011

Now that I'm over 50, I look back at my younger self and wish that someone had pulled me aside, sat me down, looked me straight in the eye and told me what I'm about to tell you.

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The Boys of Summer: Turning Fifty at Red Sox Fantasy Camp.

Peter Mandel | Posted 08.21.2011

Read More: Florida, Middle Age, Rookies, Fort Myers, Baseball Fantasy Camp, Jim Rice, Boston Red Sox, Major League Baseball, Travel News

We spend the first day of camp finding out if our baseball muscles still work. I am 50. My old pair of cleats cuts off my circulation. It's going to be a very long week.

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Men of a Certain Age Is Aging Well

Jackie K. Cooper | Posted 07.31.2011

Read More: Middle Age, Scott Bakula, Ray Romano, Senior Golf Tour, Ex-Wives, Andre Braugher, Entertainment News

If you haven't started watching Men of a Certain Age then this is the season to give it a try. You will find yourself enjoying the tales of these three friends as they stumble into middle age. It is warm, honest and humorous.

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