My Decade of Turning 50

AARP sent me another solicitation on Friday. Hey, AARP, it’s not you, it’s me. Leave me alone…OK, I’ll be honest, I would love the hotel discount and fantasize that I’d be carded each time I try to claim the AARP discount…NY Times has an article today on Eons, the baby boomer site you used to [...]

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Surprisingly, doing laundry on a Friday morning feel liberating. I feel I have somehow saved a weekend day, since that is when I usually get to it…Things I notice now that I am 50 years old — when I was young, yogurt and martini’s only came in one flavor. I say this as a eat [...]

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I went to a wedding yesterday. Always good when I at least am younger than the parents of the bride and groom…TV Land today is showing a bunch of Leave it to Beaver shows, in honor of its 50th anniversary…Bruce Springsteen — age 58! — was on 60 Minutes tonight. It’s been 32 years since [...]

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OK, I lied…I’m not doing laundry, but I am thinking randomly…we lost power tonight — typical Florida thunderstorm — but it made me think of the New York City blackout of 1977, which was 30 years ago this month. I was there for it, and the one in 1965, which was more fun for me [...]

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Just watched the end of Vertigo and that scream and the bells get me every time, even when I know they are coming…more things from 1967, Chick-Fil-A was founded and the Supreme Court struck down laws that barred inter-racial marriage…more signs of the boomer apocalypse: heard on NPR today that there will soon be a [...]

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More random thoughts…went to dentist today because I lost a post and crown. I swear I heard him upgrading his vacation plans after looking in my mouth…my first dentist used to see patients in a room off his living room, in a crappy apartment across from the projects where I grew up in the Inwood [...]

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Someone found this blog by searching “turning 50 jokes.” Boy, was he disappointed…recently all my pants have shrunk, which either says something about my laundry skills or eating habits…I wish I could remember all the words to the song “16 Tons,” which oddly is something we’ve sung to ABC since she was a baby…I’m another [...]

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