Jane LederMay 19, 20203 minWho Says You Can Never Go Home Again?I know. Going back to your childhood home or the home you visited when you were on vacation from college or back before you got your own pl
Jane LederMay 5, 20203 minA Home Town Girl Wanna Be"Home Town" calms me like a glass of hot milk before bed and reminds me of better times when political rancor and greed didn't dominate our
Jane LederMar 29, 20203 minTHE LETTER It arrived amidst all the junk mail--the catalogs I never ordered, postcards from AARP, announcements about new senior communities in my...
Jane LederMar 4, 20203 minLearning a Second Language At Our Age The older we get, the harder it is to learn a new language.
Jane LederJan 20, 20203 minYour Immortality Application If we can't laugh about aging, we're in deep sh___. "Your Immortality Application" (The New Yorker, October 28, 2019) by Cora Frazier...
Jane LederJan 9, 20204 min"Why Can't We Tell The Truth About Aging?" Amidst all the hoopla about the advantages of aging (self-confidence, experience, even power--badges that I have touted at length in this bl
Jane LederDec 30, 20193 minYou're Only As Old As You FeelHow often have you heard someone say, "You're only as old as you feel?" Is there some truth to that philosophy?
Jane LederDec 24, 20193 minSaying "No" Maybe as a two-year-old, I drove my parents crazy and set a record for the number of times I asserted my independence and screamed "No!" ...
Jane LederNov 29, 20193 min"Losing It"If you go to the refrigerator and forget why you were there--not a big deal. But if you make the same trip and forget what a refrigerator i
Jane LederNov 11, 20192 minDressing Rooms: OMG!I walked into the dressing room at TJMax yesterday afternoon in search of one or two new sweaters to replace several in my closet that...
Jane LederNov 4, 20193 minThe Secret To AgingPeople is not where I'd look to find the secret to aging. Actually, I'm not sure where I'd look but definitely not in the gossip rag...
Jane LederNov 1, 20194 minSisters I hadn't seen my sister in two years--two years until last week. She lives in Ohio; I live in Illinois. It's a six-hour drive, if not...
Jane LederOct 5, 20193 minMy Great Aunt Ruth: What a HootRuth, the second youngest of six children, was born in 1897 in Sault St. Marie, Michigan. She was forty-eight by the time I arrived less...
Jane LederSep 14, 20193 minFloppy But Healthy: Breasts & MammogramsYep, talking about boobs and annual mammograms. Today was this year's screening. I've had two scares: one about 25 years ago when we...
Jane LederSep 9, 20193 minRandom Thoughts On A Dreary Monday MorningOkay, so it's dreary. No sun. Good possibility of rain. BUT, I don't have to wear a coat or a jacket to venture outside. My garden,...
Jane LederAug 6, 20193 min"Undiagnosed Middle-Age-Onset Discomfort Summer Tour"There was no violence at Woodstock. No fighting, no attacks, no killing. (There was, if I recall, some bad acid.) It was a celebration of
Jane LederJul 26, 20193 min"Green Your Beauty Routine" An expert on skin care I am not. Like most older women, I've tried a smorgasbord of products over the years. Expensive moisturizers,...
Jane LederJul 18, 20193 min60 Seconds to Complain: Time's Up Yep. That's right: we get to bitch and moan about our aches and pains, our bodies--even our partners. We have 60 seconds. Then time is...
Jane LederJun 19, 20193 min"Move It Or Lose It" When I googled the phrase "Move it or lose it," my screen flooded with ads for local and national moving companies. And here I thought...