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Jane Leder
Jun 10, 20192 min read
Wit, Wisdom & Luck: Living To Be 100 (or almost)
I don't know about you, but I find myself cheering out loud whenever I hear about a woman in her 90s or older who dies. Of course, I'm...
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Jane Leder
Jun 10, 20193 min read
Has It Come To This? Googling Contraptions for Seniors
Catchy name for a website dedicated to seniors--even for those of us not yet gray. Well, not gray enough that hair dye doesn't still do...
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Jane Leder
Jun 10, 20192 min read
"Just Shoot Me"
Well, that's not really what my husband wanted, but that is what he said. "I don't want to go into one of those homes." "If my memory...
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Jane Leder
Jun 10, 20193 min read
Older Women & Humor: Part 2
After paying a whopping income tax bill that pulverized my bank account and any hope of buying a new office desk, I was left with no...
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Jane Leder
Jun 10, 20193 min read
In The End, It's All About Humor
On Saturday, my husband and I stopped in to a local gallery where an accomplished painter and an acquaintance was having a two-person...
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Jane Leder
Jun 10, 20193 min read
"You Don't Look Your Age" (Musings on Turning 73 and What Looking One's Age Means, Anyway)
I used to relish what I interpreted as a compliment when someone looked at my driver's license and said, "No, way! You don't look your...
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Jane Leder
Jun 10, 20193 min read
"Breaking Up Is Hard To Do"
I'm always amazed that a few times every year, I dream about the boy I loved more than five decades ago and how he broke my heart when he...
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Jane Leder
Jun 10, 20195 min read
"My Mother/MySelf"
Not long ago, I mentioned to my younger and only sister that I was aging exactly like our mother. I seemed a clone of her older self...
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Jane Leder
Jun 10, 20193 min read
Bikini or One-Piece: Whatever Floats Your Boat
"She wore an itsy bitsy Teenie weenie Yellow polka Dot bikini . . . " I love to swim. Always have. Growing up on a spring fed lake in...
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Jane Leder
Jun 10, 20193 min read
Women Redefining Themselves
"When Sleeping Women Wake, Mountains Move" - Chinese Proverb As a writer, I don't see my life as before retirement and after. I have...
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Jane Leder
Jun 10, 20193 min read
Friends Who Will Be There Whenever We Call
My friend, Ann (who, by the way, I hadn't seen or talked to in at least three decades) and I reconnected at a 50th reunion with a group...
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Jane Leder
Jun 10, 20193 min read
THE FREEDOM of BLOGGING
I have spent the last year tweeting, posting, blogging, and generally talking about nothing else but teen suicide. I was determined to...
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Jane Leder
Jun 10, 20193 min read
Keeping Your Balance While Traveling
What do you get when you play baseball in your dreams, fall out of bed and crash the side of your head on cold, unforgiving Mexican tile?...
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Jane Leder
Jun 10, 20192 min read
WOMEN AGING: WHAT'S NEXT?
I'm one of the lucky ones who gets to escape Chicago winters for the warmer, sunny climes of San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. You may have...
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Jane Leder
Jun 10, 20193 min read
A Pep Talk For Older Women
It's one of those days when I need some support. That nasty tendency to see all the flaws of aging has sneaked back around and I so...
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Jane Leder
Jun 10, 20193 min read
Certified Truth Teller
I was the little girl with a knot in her stomach the size of my beloved Thom McCann Cha-Cha boots ("The boots with a beat") who slunk...
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Jane Leder
Jun 10, 20192 min read
Stories We Tell Ourselves
What if I told you that women seventy+ are enjoying the happiest time of their lives? Sounds like someone from another planet. Right? ...
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Jane Leder
Jun 10, 20193 min read
When Friendships Fray
I hear tell that a lot of close ties have been broken lately over politics. Nope, I'm not going there. Where I am going is the more...
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Jane Leder
Jun 10, 20194 min read
A Womb Of Your Own
A therapist asked me if I'd ever thought of how my time in the womb and ride down the birth control might have affected me throughout the...
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Jane Leder
Jun 10, 20193 min read
Age Jumps & What To Do About Them
Today is what I long ago coined an "Age Jump" day. I woke up, looked at myself in the mirror and stared in dismay at a new line (maybe a...
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