My Decade of Turning 50

First it was China! Now my ears! I think we need a new category, perhaps “Scary things about turning 50.” Today’s New York Times web site features an article on how we boomers are losing our hearing. (I wrote a version of this in 2000 for WebMD.com.) Perhaps the scariest thing about turning 50? All [...]

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The Washington Post reports this morning that baby boomers seem less healthy than their parents. At first, I wasn’t surprised, since I think of people like my dad, who worked a lot harder than I ever did at physical labor (although, unlike me, he did smoke). I think of my generation as a lot heavier [...]

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It is Saturday morning — actually, by the time I post this it will be past noon. I slept long and late. My schedule recently changed so that I need to be to work by 6 a.m., so I leave my house at 5:15 a.m. I try to get to sleep by 9:30 on work [...]

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