My Decade of Turning 50

We get the Wall Street Journal at home — it helps to be married to a financial journalist whose company pays for it. I love the WSJ Saturday paper, where it’s less about stocks and more about books, wine, gadgets and cars. But today’s headline was a bit of a downer for those of us [...]

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It was about two years ago that I decided I would retire this blog, which at the time I called My Year of Turning 50. I had started it as a way to chronicle my thoughts about turning a half century old, and it seems fitting to end it sometimes after passing the mark. So [...]

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…well, retiring from the blog. For the few of you who know me and follow the blog, it’s obvious I haven’t been feeding it much lately. Part of the reason is the usual business of life, but some of it is that I started it to talk about turning 50 and I have. As with [...]

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Wondering what song to play for someone turning 50 years old? Or 60? Or 30 years ago? Or maybe just 8? How about the song that was No. 1 on the day the person was born? A post from New York Times tech guy David Pogue mentions a web site where you can check out [...]

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MTV has a reality series called “The Hills.” I know, I haven’t seen it either, but Heavy.com has a parody called “Over the Hills,” which apparently uses the real dialogue from the series and puts it in the mouths of, uh, “senior citizens.” To me, it’s quite funny. Some might see it as making fun [...]

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JibJab.com is one of wonderful places on the Internet for video parodies. It also has a place where people exchange jokes, called JokeBox. The video below is a parody of Rocky, both sick and a little sweet. Below that is some turning 50 (and older) jokes. “Rocky After Retirement” | Funny Jokes at JibJab This [...]

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If you notice something different about this blog, it’s because I have moved it to a new server and have started to use WordPress 2.5 instead of Blogger. Now My Year of Turning 50 is hosted with my other web site work — the web and blog for the Warren Acting Company — on BlueHost.com. [...]

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I remember reading Mad Magazine here and there in my youth, but I connected more with National Lampoon, since I went to high school during the 1970s. Its humor was a little sicker and grosser — hey, I was, like, a teenager. But one thing I do remember from Mad were the cool fold-ins where [...]

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Sometimes the news brings back baby boomer memories in weird ways. Today it was that Dawn Wells, who played Mary Ann on Gilligan’s Island was arrested after marijuana was found in her car in Idaho. As if that contrast wasn’t tough enough — Mary Ann! With DOPE! — the photo made me feel old. How [...]

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St. Simons Lighthouse Originally uploaded by John Cutter. Let’s hope it’s not all downhill, I mean, downstairs from this point…the photo is from the top landing of the St. Simons Lighthouse in Georgia. It’s about 100 feet. I will say after turning 50, I do feel a bit like these steps — well worn, a [...]

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