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    Who Says You Can Never Go Home Again?
    Jane Leder
    • May 19, 2020
    • 3 min

    Who 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
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    A Home Town Girl Wanna Be
    Jane Leder
    • May 5, 2020
    • 3 min

    A 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
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    THE LETTER
    Jane Leder
    • Mar 29, 2020
    • 3 min

    THE LETTER

    It arrived amidst all the junk mail--the catalogs I never ordered, postcards from AARP, announcements about new senior communities in my...
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    Learning a Second Language At Our Age
    Jane Leder
    • Mar 4, 2020
    • 3 min

    Learning a Second Language At Our Age

    The older we get, the harder it is to learn a new language.
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    Your Immortality Application
    Jane Leder
    • Jan 20, 2020
    • 3 min

    Your 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...
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    "Why Can't We Tell The Truth About Aging?"
    Jane Leder
    • Jan 9, 2020
    • 4 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
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    10 Steps To Save My Sanity in 2020
    Jane Leder
    • Dec 31, 2019
    • 3 min

    10 Steps To Save My Sanity in 2020

    10 Steps to Save Your Sanity in 2020
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    You're Only As Old As You Feel
    Jane Leder
    • Dec 30, 2019
    • 3 min

    You're Only As Old As You Feel

    How often have you heard someone say, "You're only as old as you feel?" Is there some truth to that philosophy?
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    Saying "No"
    Jane Leder
    • Dec 24, 2019
    • 3 min

    Saying "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!" ...
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    "Losing It"
    Jane Leder
    • Nov 29, 2019
    • 3 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
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    Dressing Rooms:  OMG!
    Jane Leder
    • Nov 11, 2019
    • 2 min

    Dressing 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...
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    The Secret To Aging
    Jane Leder
    • Nov 4, 2019
    • 3 min

    The Secret To Aging

    People 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...
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    Sisters
    Jane Leder
    • Nov 1, 2019
    • 4 min

    Sisters

    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...
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    My Great Aunt Ruth: What a Hoot
    Jane Leder
    • Oct 5, 2019
    • 3 min

    My Great Aunt Ruth: What a Hoot

    Ruth, 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...
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    Floppy But Healthy: Breasts & Mammograms
    Jane Leder
    • Sep 14, 2019
    • 3 min

    Floppy But Healthy: Breasts & Mammograms

    Yep, talking about boobs and annual mammograms. Today was this year's screening. I've had two scares: one about 25 years ago when we...
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    Random Thoughts On A Dreary Monday Morning
    Jane Leder
    • Sep 9, 2019
    • 3 min

    Random Thoughts On A Dreary Monday Morning

    Okay, 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,...
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    "Undiagnosed Middle-Age-Onset Discomfort Summer Tour"
    Jane Leder
    • Aug 6, 2019
    • 3 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
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    "Green Your Beauty Routine"
    Jane Leder
    • Jul 26, 2019
    • 3 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,...
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    60 Seconds to Complain: Time's Up
    Jane Leder
    • Jul 18, 2019
    • 3 min

    60 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...
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    "Move It Or Lose It"
    Jane Leder
    • Jun 19, 2019
    • 3 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...
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