Why Do Old People Jump Out of Airplanes Anyway?

by Madeleine Kolb December 13, 2010

Have you noticed all the stories lately about old people undergoing some trial, a sort of self-imposed hazing to show that they’re Not Over the Hill or that they’ve Still Got What It Takes. The trial needs to be something which ***seems active and ***is dangerous but is not extremely likely to kill someone and [...]

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The Stop Diabetes Campaign Continues

by Madeleine Kolb December 1, 2010

  Type 2 diabetes is reaching epidemic proportions in the U.S. and in much of the world. Currently, one in 10 Americans has diabetes. If present trends continue, one in three will suffer from the disease by the year 2050, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (Type 1 diabetes–the form which rocker [...]

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Women Over 50 Rock

by Madeleine Kolb November 27, 2010

As a woman grows older, it’s easy for her to feel unappreciated, patronized, stereotyped and long past her prime. After all our culture bombards us with daily messages that we’ve become flabby, wrinkly, and generally unattractive. And just forget about being sexy—those days are long gone! So it was a great pleasure to stumble across this post [...]

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3 Things To Bring To The Doctor’s Office

by Madeleine Kolb November 12, 2010

The Healthiness Project: Part 1  My second pregnancy lasted a long, long time. The baby was big and getting bigger every day. Six months went by, then seven, then eight. Finally, one morning—two weeks and one day after my so-called due date—I woke up with some tentative contractions. I waited. More contractions. At last, I was in labor. When [...]

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Why Taking The Train Is The Only Way To Fly

by Madeleine Kolb November 7, 2010

Over the last three weeks my BF Dick and I have traveled a lot. We’ve traveled by plane and train across the U.S. and by automobile on shorter trips in the eastern part of the country.  Our trips By car to a town in Maryland near Washington, DC where I competed in a Toastmasters’ Humorous Speech Contest [...]

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Can We Talk? About Breasts?

by Madeleine Kolb October 21, 2010

How did all of us—men but mostly women—get to be so weird about women’s breasts? About the size, shape, and firmness or sagginess? How did we become so obsessed with the way breasts look and so up-tight about their function, which is simply to nourish an infant? Take comic Joan Rivers, for example. Joan—who repeatedly asks, [...]

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Blogging, Aging, and Life

by Madeleine Kolb October 11, 2010

Today I want to share a handful of wonderful blogs about growing older. It is a diverse group, offering a mix of challenging life experience, such as the illness and death of a parent; personal experience of the second 50 years; cultural pressure to stay forever young;  musings on what’s essential and not so important after [...]

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Something to Celebrate: International Day of Older Persons

by Madeleine Kolb October 4, 2010

The world’s population is aging. The number of people over the age of 60 is increasing as is the proportion of the population over that age. The World Health Organization (WHO) projected that there would be approximately 600 million people over 60 in 2002 and that this number will double by 2020 and reach about [...]

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Your Health: If They Ask, Should You Tell?

by Madeleine Kolb September 24, 2010

The state of your health is between you and your doctor and your family. Right? Why should a government agency care? Why does your employer—current or future—need to know? What difference does it make? I’ve been thinking about these questions lately because a few days ago I got a notice requesting information to be entered [...]

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The Right Stuff Award: Dr. Kenneth Cooper

by Madeleine Kolb September 12, 2010

“The Right Stuff ” is a term popularized by author Tom Wolfe in his rollicking, uproarious, roller-coaster-ride of a book by the same name:  a book about the seven original astronauts selected for Project Mercury. They were men who had what it took to climb into a massive rocket loaded with explosive fuel and blast off into [...]

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