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	<title>Fab Over Fifty Blog &#187; Fab Over Fifty</title>
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	<description>Celebrating Women of Style and Substance</description>
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		<title>G my name is Geri</title>
		<link>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2010/07/28/g-my-name-is-geri/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 23:23:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geri</dc:creator>
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The hosts of an Atlanta radio station were taken aback when they heard Colby call me &#8220;Geri&#8221; during our interview. &#8220;Did I hear your son call you by your name?&#8221; one host asked in astonishment? &#8220;That would never fly down South,&#8221; she said, as if we were committing a crime.
 

I explained that I wouldn&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Here&#8217;s to a new you!</title>
		<link>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2010/07/27/heres-to-a-new-you/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2010/07/27/heres-to-a-new-you/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 22:26:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geri</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[

Why are we so intrigued by makeovers? We wait with baited breath as the contestants weigh in on The Big Loser. We root for simply pretty girls to turn into glamour pusses on America&#8217;s Next Top Model. We thrill when a well-deserving family views its spanking new 4,000-square-foot home on Extreme Makeover, Home Edition. And [...]]]></description>
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		<title>You again!!!!!!</title>
		<link>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2010/07/26/you-again/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 23:20:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geri</dc:creator>
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I don’t know many FOF moms who want their adult kids to live with them. We may have had empty nest syndrome when they went away to school or got their own places, but we got over that pretty quickly when we realized how peaceful it was to be on our own again.

Now the unemployment [...]]]></description>
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		<title>R&amp;R with D&amp;D</title>
		<link>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2010/07/25/rr-with-dd/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jul 2010 21:38:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geri</dc:creator>
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Douglas, David and I went to a new shopping mall in Manhattan today, where Marshalls and Target were having their grand openings. As we wandered down the packed aisles, I chuckled to myself how great it is that D and D get along, especially considering one is my former husband, and the other, my current [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Let&#8217;s see, what is twice FOF?</title>
		<link>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2010/07/24/whats-twice-fof/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2010/07/24/whats-twice-fof/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jul 2010 22:25:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geri</dc:creator>
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I met one of the most incredible women in the world this morning, who was sitting right next to me in my neighborhood nail salon. Her name is Edith Levin. She&#8217;s elegant as all get out, genteel, well spoken, open and friendly. She&#8217;ll be 98 in November and she was having her weekly manicure and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mothering instincts</title>
		<link>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2010/07/23/mothering-instincts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2010 21:06:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geri</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A FOF friend who chose not to have children adores her niece and treats her like a daughter.  She even planned and paid for her niece’s wedding.
Another FOF says she’s “grateful for not having kids.”
A third is completely involved with her adult children’s lives; it seems like she defines herself by their successes and happiness.
And [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FOF BBFs</title>
		<link>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2010/07/22/fof-bbfs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 21:23:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geri</dc:creator>
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When Hillary Clinton was in Vietnam during the last few days, an artist there presented her with a jewel-encrusted portrait of her with daughter Chelsea. The piece was modeled after a photo of them taken when they were in Vietnam together in 2000. The gift was in honor of Chelsea&#8217;s upcoming nuptials to her longtime [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mighty men?</title>
		<link>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2010/07/21/mighty-men/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2010/07/21/mighty-men/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 23:37:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geri</dc:creator>
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A single or unattached 22-year-old woman in the 1960s was about to enter “spinsterhood.” As the decades moved on, the entry point for spinsterhood moved up, so by 2010, a woman could enter her thirties without the spinster stigma.

But I see something else happening in our society today: Many women are entering their forties, fifties [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;ve gone to the dogs</title>
		<link>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2010/07/20/ive-gone-to-the-dogs/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2010/07/20/ive-gone-to-the-dogs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 01:42:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geri</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[





I&#8217;ve become a dog lover in my FOF years. I was nipped in my upper thigh by a neighbor&#8217;s dog when I was a kid, an incident that instilled the fear of God in me whenever I came within 50 feet of a dog, even if it weighed in at three pounds. I had to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Home alone</title>
		<link>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2010/07/19/home-alone-2/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2010/07/19/home-alone-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2010 02:31:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geri</dc:creator>
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My maternal grandmother suffered a heart attack when she was in her seventies, so my mom went to be with her. My dad would have to fend for himself for one or two nights, which was somewhat of a problem since he:  a.) Would be lonely b.) Couldn’t boil water c.) Probably wouldn’t be able [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t do me any favors</title>
		<link>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2010/07/18/dont-do-me-any-favors/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2010/07/18/dont-do-me-any-favors/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Jul 2010 20:49:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geri</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If I am in a position to do a favor, I will.
Often, I offer to do favors for people who haven&#8217;t even asked. I also do favors for people who aren&#8217;t in positions to return the favors, and will probably never be.
A neighbor&#8217;s son needed a summer job a few years ago, so I called [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I only lost an earring. I still have my &#8220;look.&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2010/07/17/i-only-lost-an-earring-i-still-have-my-look/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2010/07/17/i-only-lost-an-earring-i-still-have-my-look/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jul 2010 21:27:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geri</dc:creator>
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I lost an earring this week. It wasn’t the first earring I’ve lost, but it was an earring I adored, and I’ve owned it only a couple of months. I’m having a replacement made because they reflect me more than any other earrings I’ve ever owned.  Looking like miniature gold fish skeletons, they dangle and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I want to be her new best friend</title>
		<link>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2010/07/16/i-want-to-be-her-new-best-friend/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2010/07/16/i-want-to-be-her-new-best-friend/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jul 2010 22:35:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geri</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[

I met Gayle King today, as in Oprah&#8217;s friend, Gayle King.


She invited me and my son, Colby, onto her radio show to talk about the new &#8220;Date My Single Kid&#8221; section of FOF because she liked the concept and wanted to hear our take on it; how it&#8217;s being received and whether I&#8217;m a meddling [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On the streets where I live</title>
		<link>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2010/07/15/on-the-streets-where-i-live/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2010/07/15/on-the-streets-where-i-live/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jul 2010 02:01:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geri</dc:creator>
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Walking Rigby in the evening gives me a chance to decompress and to focus on fun, interesting things in my neighborhood.


One evening I might pay particular attention to the penthouse  terraces of grand old apartment buildings in my neighborhood. How cool it would be to have a big ole &#8220;backyard&#8221; in the sky overlooking Park [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;You make me mad!&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2010/07/14/you-make-me-mad/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2010/07/14/you-make-me-mad/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 01:51:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geri</dc:creator>
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&#8220;Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.&#8221;  ~Albert Einstein

Back in the day, when people disagreed with us, they told us to our face or on the phone, even through personal hand-written notes and letters. We’d argue over lunch, debate at parties, raise our voices via AT&#38;T long distance and write pointed missives. If you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What happened today</title>
		<link>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2010/07/13/what-happened-today/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2010/07/13/what-happened-today/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2010 01:30:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geri</dc:creator>
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This has been the craziest day of my FOF life. Starting at 6:30 a.m., producers from Today, Good Morning America, The Early Show, Fox &#38; Friends, and numerous other shows, invited me and my son, Colby, to come on air to talk about Date My Single Kid, a new feature we launched today on FabOverFifty.com. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When you&#8217;re laughing, when you&#8217;re laughing&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2010/07/12/when-youre-laughing-when-youre-laughing/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2010/07/12/when-youre-laughing-when-youre-laughing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 01:28:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geri</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I love to laugh.  Really laugh, as in from the diaphragm.  It feels really good. Sometimes I will become hysterical over the silliest things, like a crack Sofia makes on The Golden Girls or the funny faces Jim and Pam make on re-runs of The Office. 
 
When I saw Bill Cosby’s Las Vegas show [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;m with you, Audrey</title>
		<link>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2010/07/11/im-with-you-audrey/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2010/07/11/im-with-you-audrey/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Jul 2010 21:24:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geri</dc:creator>
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&#8220;Pick the day.  Enjoy it &#8211; to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come&#8230; The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present, and I don&#8217;t want to spoil any of it by fretting about the future.&#8221; &#8211;Audrey Hepburn


How many times have we heard a survivor of a serious accident [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Go ahead, make(up) my day!</title>
		<link>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2010/07/10/go-ahead-makeup-my-day/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2010/07/10/go-ahead-makeup-my-day/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Jul 2010 20:22:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geri</dc:creator>
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I met my friend, Donna D,  for lunch at Saks today and started chuckling at the window displays. They weren&#8217;t designed to be funny, but they were amusing because each was promoting a different beauty brand promising to lift, lighten, regenerate, revive, restore and replenish. The beauty industry can come up with more promises than [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I need a fix from you</title>
		<link>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2010/07/09/a-walking-talking-drug/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2010/07/09/a-walking-talking-drug/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jul 2010 22:15:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geri</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Addiction=compulsion, dependence, obsession, craving, infatuation. No matter how you say it, Martha Stewart wouldn’t call it “a good thing” and neither would I.
We know about all the garden-variety addictions: Work, cigarettes, alcohol, drugs, shopping and food. But do you know it’s entirely possible to be addicted to a person?  Many of us turn to girlfriends, boyfriends or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s a bird, it&#8217;s a plane, it&#8217;s Superwoman</title>
		<link>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2010/07/08/its-a-bird-its-a-plane-its-super-woman/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2010/07/08/its-a-bird-its-a-plane-its-super-woman/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jul 2010 01:07:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geri</dc:creator>
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FOF friend D and  I were discussing a mutual male acquaintance who has a vile reputation with strong, smart women. They threaten him. 
This man has a big job with a big company, but he isn&#8217;t especially talented and he prefers to surround himself at work with really vulnerable women. They&#8217;re so grateful he&#8217;s given [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Just being nosy</title>
		<link>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2010/07/07/just-being-nosy/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2010/07/07/just-being-nosy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jul 2010 23:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geri</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Story #1
Debbie, a high school classmate, had a prominent nose.  She was a slight girl, which made her nose even more pronounced.  She was very smart, as I remember, but I think she was extremely self-conscious. She&#8217;d walk around with her loose-leaf books and notes held up close to her face, as if she wanted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;None of your business, sonny boy!&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2010/07/06/none-of-your-business-sonny-boy/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2010/07/06/none-of-your-business-sonny-boy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jul 2010 20:35:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geri</dc:creator>
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Dear Abby,
I am 84 years old and have had a successful and rich career in my family business. I’m still working and full of energy, but I know my son has been anxious to take over the business for quite some time.  Am I being selfish not to give him the opportunity to pick up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Daddy, I got a job!&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2010/07/05/the-donald-to-nicole-youre-hired/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2010/07/05/the-donald-to-nicole-youre-hired/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2010 23:47:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geri</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fab Over Fifty]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.faboverfifty.com/?p=7108</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[
David and I went to my sister Shelley&#8217;s in Staten Island today for a July 5th barbecue to celebrate my nephew Adam&#8217;s 33 birthday.  Adam&#8217;s girlfriend, Nicole, was there, too. She just graduated from college and will begin working tomorrow for The Trump Organization as assistant manager of the Trump Store in Trump Towers (that&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hip Hip Garay!*</title>
		<link>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2010/07/04/hurray-hurray-for-garay/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2010/07/04/hurray-hurray-for-garay/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jul 2010 23:32:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geri</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fab Over Fifty]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.faboverfifty.com/?p=7089</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[

The first time I noticed Olivia Garay&#8217;s makeshift &#8220;shop&#8221; on Manhattan&#8217;s Upper East Side, I did a double take. Crammed into a few glass display cases, right out on the sidewalk, were gorgeous vintage bracelets, belts, necklaces, brooches and rings from Hermes, Chanel, Gucci, Tiffany, Cartier, Judith Jack and more. Joining other shoppers to peer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Face to face with Joan Rivers</title>
		<link>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2010/07/03/face-to-face-with-joan-rivers/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2010/07/03/face-to-face-with-joan-rivers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jul 2010 22:24:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geri</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fab Over Fifty]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.faboverfifty.com/?p=7070</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[
We should name Joan Rivers the official spokeswoman for FOF. Now, before you start to make faces and tell me I&#8217;m nuts, go to see  the documentary about her, &#8220;A Piece of Work.&#8221;  If you don&#8217;t walk out wanting to be Joan&#8217;s new best friend, I&#8217;d be dumbfounded. Simone, my 28-year-old daughter, texted me after [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The only thing they were cooking up was the birth of a nation</title>
		<link>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2010/07/02/the-only-thing-they-were-cooking-up-was-the-birth-of-a-nation/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2010/07/02/the-only-thing-they-were-cooking-up-was-the-birth-of-a-nation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jul 2010 22:34:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geri</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fab Over Fifty]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.faboverfifty.com/?p=7053</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[

When the First Continental Congress met in 1774, the men started bickering within two days, so someone made a motion to open the sessions in prayer. John Adams said it had a remarkable affect, according to a new book, &#8220;Forged in Faith,&#8221; by Rod Gragg. Describing his work as &#8220;a survey of America from the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seeing the sculpture through the trees</title>
		<link>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2010/07/01/seeing-the-sculpture-through-the-trees/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2010/07/01/seeing-the-sculpture-through-the-trees/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2010 23:18:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geri</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fab Over Fifty]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.faboverfifty.com/?p=7040</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[

When I was recently walking through one of the busiest intersections of Manhattan—the corner of 60 Street and Fifth Avenue—I did something few New Yorkers usually do:  I stopped to take a look around me, instead of rushing blindly to my next appointment. There, right near the southern entrance to Central Park, stood a giant, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Teachers&#8217; gifts</title>
		<link>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2010/06/30/teachers-gifts/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2010/06/30/teachers-gifts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jun 2010 23:28:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geri</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fab Over Fifty]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.faboverfifty.com/?p=7031</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[
When I saw Patty Duke and Anne Bancroft in The Miracle Worker on Broadway in 1962 (I was 15), I could not stop thinking about Helen Keller. I still remember the scene where Annie Sullivan persistently held one of Helen’s little hands under a water pump and wrote out the word “water” in the other, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mirren, Mirren in the tub</title>
		<link>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2010/06/29/7020/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2010/06/29/7020/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jun 2010 22:47:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geri</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fab Over Fifty]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ 
I am sick and tired of seeing photos and articles celebrating the looks of FOF actresses. Why shouldn’t they look great? Do they turn into beasts when the clock strikes fifty? Do they lose their style and talent (assuming they have either)? Do they shrivel up and die?

FOF women all look great, whoever and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;You&#8217;re getting to be a habit with me&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2010/06/28/youre-getting-to-be-a-habit-with-me/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2010/06/28/youre-getting-to-be-a-habit-with-me/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jun 2010 02:29:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geri</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fab Over Fifty]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.faboverfifty.com/?p=7002</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[


&#8220;Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.&#8221; &#8211;Aldous Huxley

Uncle Normie and aunt Helen dined at the same restaurant every single night for years; my sister Shelley and her husband, Rusty, spent their anniversary weekend at the same hotel for a decade; my husband, David, wouldn&#8217;t stop using the same tailoring shop to make [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tired and old are not synonymous</title>
		<link>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2010/06/27/tired-and-old-are-not-synonymous/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2010/06/27/tired-and-old-are-not-synonymous/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jun 2010 22:59:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geri</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fab Over Fifty]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.faboverfifty.com/?p=6988</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[


A former producer at a local New York news station has filed an age discrimination suit, claiming the station wanted to replace experienced anchor people with cheaper, younger talent. Notice I said cheaper and younger, because TV executives apparently believe &#8220;prettier&#8221; people are more appealing to audiences, and younger equals prettier.


Someone needs to tell these [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Madden(ing) music</title>
		<link>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2010/06/26/maddening-music/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2010/06/26/maddening-music/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jun 2010 20:59:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geri</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fab Over Fifty]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.faboverfifty.com/?p=6976</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[
The music was so loud, I could barely hear myself think in the Steve Madden shop where I was trying on a pair of cute shoes.  And it wasn&#8217;t Mozart. How can you stand it?&#8221; I asked the twenty something salesgirl at the register. &#8220;I don&#8217;t even hear it anymore?&#8221; she said. If she works [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Twin powers</title>
		<link>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2010/06/25/twin-powers/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2010/06/25/twin-powers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jun 2010 21:55:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geri</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fab Over Fifty]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.faboverfifty.com/?p=6962</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[

&#8220;They have wonderful dispositions. They don&#8217;t throw tantrums at all, &#8221; said my FOF friend about her three-year old twin grandsons. We&#8217;d all love to have tantrum-free  children, except my pal&#8217;s grandsons have something we don&#8217;t want any children to have: Autism. 


The boys&#8217; condition was diagnosed earlier this year and now they undergo hours [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Help, I need somebody&#8230;&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2010/06/24/help-i-need-somebody/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2010/06/24/help-i-need-somebody/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jun 2010 20:38:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geri</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fab Over Fifty]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.faboverfifty.com/?p=6946</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[
I got to where I am, personally and professionally, because someone or something helped me&#8230;

&#8230;a co-worker who took the time to critique stories I wrote; a boss who never stopped teaching me how to be a great salesperson; an ex-husband who let me cry on his shoulder for hours about my love life; a therapist [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Every breath I take</title>
		<link>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2010/06/23/every-breath-i-take/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2010/06/23/every-breath-i-take/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jun 2010 23:16:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geri</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fab Over Fifty]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.faboverfifty.com/?p=6939</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[

Last year, a mass in my groin suddenly appeared. Within 24 hours, I visited my dermatologist and internist and had a sonogram.  A hernia was ruled out, but no one knew for sure what it was, so I was advised to go to a cancer surgeon.  By the time I saw the surgeon, a few [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I love lily</title>
		<link>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2010/06/22/i-love-lily/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2010/06/22/i-love-lily/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jun 2010 22:39:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geri</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fab Over Fifty]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.faboverfifty.com/?p=6910</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[

If I could leave all my responsibilities behind and head for Malaga, Spain, tonight, I would.  I’ve actually never had a burning desire to go to Malaga, but I would go now to meet new FOF member, Lily Trainor.


I called Lily this afternoon after reading some of the powerful messages on her website.
“Nothing positive can come [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I guess it&#8217;s smarter than smoking crack</title>
		<link>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2010/06/21/i-guess-its-smarter-than-smoking-crack/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2010/06/21/i-guess-its-smarter-than-smoking-crack/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jun 2010 22:09:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geri</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fab Over Fifty]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.faboverfifty.com/?p=6896</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I wouldn’t care if my 16-year-old daughter were the best swimmer this side of the Mississippi.  I wouldn’t let her swim the English Channel. It’s dangerous.
I wouldn’t care if my 16-year-old daughter were the greatest skate boarder on Venice Beach. I wouldn’t let her skateboard up Broadway, with or without a helmet. It’s dangerous.
I wouldn’t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dear daddy,</title>
		<link>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2010/06/20/dear-daddy/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2010/06/20/dear-daddy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jun 2010 18:20:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geri</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fab Over Fifty]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.faboverfifty.com/?p=6885</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[
I’m going out to lunch for Father’s Day with Douglas (you remember him, my former husband), David (you’ve never met him, but you’d like him), Simone and Colby. Colby was telling me the other day that it makes him sad that he didn’t get to know you better, especially because you share a birthday.  Your [...]]]></description>
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		<title>There was something about Mary</title>
		<link>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2010/06/19/the-was-something-about-mary/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2010/06/19/the-was-something-about-mary/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jun 2010 23:38:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geri</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fab Over Fifty]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.faboverfifty.com/?p=6875</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[

Mary, twenty years my senior, was my first mentor. She was my editor when I was a green 24-year-old reporter. I would tensely watch her reading my copy, praying she&#8217;d like it. She taught me, over many years, how to become a better and better writer.


Mary also was my closest friend for many years. My [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;I love you&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2010/06/18/i-love-you/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2010/06/18/i-love-you/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jun 2010 00:14:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geri</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fab Over Fifty]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.faboverfifty.com/?p=6866</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[

I was scheduled to have a colonoscopy and endoscopy today to check out my insides, so my wonderful friend, Lois, emailed to wish me well. I emailed back to thank her and to tell her I love her.


She wrote back again and said: &#8220;You tell me that more than Eliot does. I love you, too.&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What a terrible choice he had to make</title>
		<link>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2010/06/17/what-a-terrible-choice-he-had-to-make/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2010/06/17/what-a-terrible-choice-he-had-to-make/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jun 2010 22:37:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geri</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fab Over Fifty]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.faboverfifty.com/?p=6840</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[

 
The man who recently drove me to the airport escaped Burma a couple of years ago. A political activist, he had protested his country’s military government and faced certain arrest if he stayed. Worse, he had to leave behind his wife and two teenage children. Most definitely, they would not have all survived if [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Make yourself (un)comfortable</title>
		<link>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2010/06/16/make-yourself-uncomfortable/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2010/06/16/make-yourself-uncomfortable/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jun 2010 01:11:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geri</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fab Over Fifty]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.faboverfifty.com/?p=6827</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[
My mother, May, did not like to leave her comfort zone. She craved routine. My father was offered a position as a career officer in Europe after WWII, but she said nothing doing. Leaving the security of home would have been overwhelming to her. She stopped working when dad came back from England, and I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The road not taken</title>
		<link>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2010/06/15/the-road-not-taken-2/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2010/06/15/the-road-not-taken-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jun 2010 22:31:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geri</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fab Over Fifty]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.faboverfifty.com/?p=6808</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[









The Road Not Taken

















Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,



And sorry I could not travel both



And be one traveler, long I stood



And looked down one as far as I could



To where it bent in the undergrowth;






Then took the other, as just as fair,



And having perhaps the better claim,



Because it was grassy and wanted wear;



Though as for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Every step you take</title>
		<link>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2010/06/14/every-step-you-take/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jun 2010 21:14:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geri</dc:creator>
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Every time I complete a major project, and I think about the number of steps it took to get it done, I can’t believe I had the stamina to make my way through it all. This happens time and again, but I plunge ahead—project after project—to make something happen.

I take one step at a time [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Calm the angry beast</title>
		<link>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2010/06/13/calm-the-angry-beast/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jun 2010 20:46:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geri</dc:creator>
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&#8220;There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.&#8221; &#8211;Plato 






A close girl friend, 20 years my senior, wrote me a letter many years ago where she railed at me because I was going to leave my husband. My friend was an important part of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Then &amp; Now</title>
		<link>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2010/06/12/then-now/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jun 2010 20:24:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geri</dc:creator>
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When I first visited Las Vegas in the seventies, I was ecstatic.  Kid in Disneyworld ecstatic. I was there on business, but I woke up in the middle of the night and went to the casino in the lobby to throw money in the slot machines, or should I say throw out money.  I even [...]]]></description>
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		<title>There&#8217;s something about Mary</title>
		<link>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2010/06/11/theres-something-about-mary/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jun 2010 00:42:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geri</dc:creator>
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God bless Mary Anthony.

I had never heard of Mary until a publicist at CBS News sent FOF a release about this 93-year-old modern dance teacher and a link to an interview. You can judge for yourself what you love about Mary (the segment is only a few minutes long), but what I adore is her [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I swear, it will make you gleeful</title>
		<link>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2010/06/10/i-swear-it-will-make-you-gleeful/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jun 2010 19:53:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geri</dc:creator>
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I&#8217;m mesmerized by a TV show called Glee. It&#8217;s almost impossible to explain it well, so all I&#8217;ll say is that it&#8217;s about every struggle, competition, failure, heartache, fear, joy and success we experience in our lives&#8211;as seen through the eyes of a group of high school kids in a glee club and their teachers, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Doubting Thomas</title>
		<link>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2010/06/09/doubting-thomas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jun 2010 07:45:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geri</dc:creator>
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I&#8217;m glad Helen Thomas resigned. She had long overstayed her welcome as a White House correspondent. We all deserve to work as long as we are willing and able, but I&#8217;ve thought for years that Helen was becoming more ornery than ever. Ornery and not especially tuned into anything but the sound of her own [...]]]></description>
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