My Year of Turning 50

Wednesday (Sept. 26) marks the 50th anniversary of the opening of West Side Story on Broadway. I did the show in high school, playing a Jet called Mouthpiece, which seemed a funny name since I had few lines. (I went to an all boys high school, Cardinal Hayes in the Bronx, and we brought in [...]

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Oh a story I just read brought back memories of first going online, in those heady days of chat rooms in AOL — the smiley face ASCII art — you know, these — is turning 25 years old. According to this article:
Carnegie Mellon University professor Scott E. Fahlman says, he was the first to [...]

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I ran a post recently with the YouTube video of “Done Got Old“, which made me think about some other songs about aging that could be used for a slideshow or roast for a baby boomer turning 50 years old. There are a couple of obvious ones — The Beatles’ “When I’m Sixty-Four,” or Frank [...]

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My other favorite boomer blog, The Boomer Chronicles, weighs into with a post titled “Male Menopause is an oxymoron.” I remember sitting through a conference workshop in the mid-1990s on this subject, and both blushing and leaving the room in fear of my 50s. Of course, at 40-something, 50 seemed a distance island I would [...]

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While trolling Google for “turning 50 humor” sites, I came upon one with birthday tips and quotes that I hadn’t noticed in the past. One, attributed to George Orwell, says, “At age 50, everyone has the face he deserves.”
Of course, wasn’t it Joan Rivers who said looking 50 is great…when you’re 60.
One good way to [...]

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I’ve been thinking some about songs appropriate for turning 50 (hey, it’s not all about jokes!). My favorite is Buddy Guy’s version of “Done Got Old.” I could see someone using part of it in a video tribute, or buy it in iTunes and lay it under a slideshow of the person turning 50 for [...]

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I wish I had a camera when as I drove to work this morning — and, yes, I apparently am the last person in America without a cell phone camera. I passed a Baptist Church in Apopka, Florida, whose sign said this:
Sunday, Sept. 910:15 a.m.Armageddon
I’m hoping they are showing the 1998 asteroid-threat movie Armageddon since [...]

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My coworker Kris Hey is among the most positive people I know. She even has her own blog at our web site, called Help Yourself, where the topic often turns to things to do, read, and watch to make your life better and more positive. The topic of being positive is one I’m obsessed with [...]

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My mother used to say that you were lucky to have one good friend. Well, drawn in by my former boss and seismic changes in journalism, I joined Facebook today. Somehow I now have five friends..wait, six! Josh just accepted me as a friend. Wow, the joy of excess.
What began as a social networking site [...]

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