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	<description>Celebrating Women of Style and Substance</description>
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		<title>Two doctors. Two diagnoses.</title>
		<link>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2012/05/16/two-doctors-two-diagnoses/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2012/05/16/two-doctors-two-diagnoses/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 19:48:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geri</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I never cared about the results of blood tests when I was younger. I always expected the results to  be normal, whatever normal was. Now I study the results like I&#8217;m ready to take my SAT test. What&#8217;s a normal level of glucose in the blood? Is HDL good or bad cholesterol? Is my WBC [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother&#8217;s love is not&#8221;&#8211;James Joyce</title>
		<link>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2012/05/13/whatever-else-is-unsure-in-this-stinking-dunghill-of-a-world-a-mothers-love-is-not-james-joyce/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2012/05/13/whatever-else-is-unsure-in-this-stinking-dunghill-of-a-world-a-mothers-love-is-not-james-joyce/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 00:13:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geri</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had a delightful Mother’s Day, but I couldn’t help but think of all the moms who didn&#8217;t have their children with them today: The moms who lost their children in tragic accidents and in wars; the moms whose children committed suicide; the moms and kids who no longer communicate; the moms who lost their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Does my outside match my inside?</title>
		<link>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2012/05/09/does-my-outside-match-my-inside/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2012/05/09/does-my-outside-match-my-inside/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 19:22:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geri</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I met Edgar in 1988, my clothes of choice were short, slim skirts and dresses, pencil style slacks, fitted sweaters and sexy high-heeled shoes. I had recently lost 50 pounds and wanted to show off my svelte body. Edgar, a non-practicing Southern Baptist living in oh-so-waspy New Canaan, CT, dressed accordingly: Blue blazer, white [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Turning FOF: 50 Things Every Woman Should Have and Know</title>
		<link>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2012/05/01/turning-fof-50-things-every-woman-show-have-and-know/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2012/05/01/turning-fof-50-things-every-woman-show-have-and-know/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 14:37:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geri</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When FOF editor, Sara, asked me to comment on a list that Glamour Magazine published in 1997 advising 30-year-old women what they need to know and have, I thought: Why not create our own list for women about to become FOF? So here it is. I hope it will make you smile, nod and maybe give [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spaced out</title>
		<link>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2012/04/22/spaced-out/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2012/04/22/spaced-out/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Apr 2012 20:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geri</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The real estate section of today&#8217;s New York Times talks about the popularity of enormous apartments&#8211;say 7,000 square feet&#8211;among luxury buyers. One uber-rich, young couple told their real estate agent that a four-floor penthouse was too small since they like to live large. Wealthy people who can afford whatever they want are, of course, entitled [...]]]></description>
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		<title>We Must Work It Out</title>
		<link>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2012/04/18/we-must-work-it-out/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2012/04/18/we-must-work-it-out/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2012 15:34:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geri</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I was a young &#8220;working woman,&#8221; I was envious of my friends who didn&#8217;t have to work after they became mothers. I thought what a relief it would be not to feel stressed by constant deadlines, unreasonable and nasty bosses, long hours and hardly any time off. Now, of course, I know that staying [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A big woman in a land of men with little balls</title>
		<link>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2012/04/09/a-big-woman-in-a-land-of-men-with-little-balls/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2012/04/09/a-big-woman-in-a-land-of-men-with-little-balls/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2012 00:18:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geri</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[She&#8217;s the first woman to head IBM. She has a degree in computer science and electrical engineering, not exactly traditional women&#8217;s fields. She has the authority to approve millions of dollars in IBM sponsorship fees for events like the Masters golf tournament in Augusta, Georgia. Virginia Rometty Funny thing, though, this supremely accomplished FOF, Virginia [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Once treasures, now &#8216;toast&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2012/04/02/once-a-treasure-now-toast/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2012/04/02/once-a-treasure-now-toast/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Apr 2012 21:58:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geri</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I prepare to change residences (I delayed my move by two weeks since the renovations on my new apartment aren&#8217;t completed), I&#8217;ve uncovered things I used to think were treasures, but have now summarily sent to the garbage heap: Mountains of photos that didn&#8217;t spark one single fond memory. Why did I take 15 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On the move</title>
		<link>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2012/03/25/on-the-move/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2012/03/25/on-the-move/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Mar 2012 21:30:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geri</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[FOF neighbors, Linda and Carol, have become my good friends. Although we have every intention of remaining close, we will, sadly, no longer be neighbors. I am moving back to a co-op I own, five blocks away , this Friday; Linda will be moving to a condo she&#8217;s buying,  uptown and crosstown, in a few [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Priscilla, Queen of the Mothers</title>
		<link>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2012/03/18/priscilla-queen-of-the-mothers/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2012/03/18/priscilla-queen-of-the-mothers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Mar 2012 22:16:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geri</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I love meeting new FOFs because each of us has a fascinating story to tell about our lives. No matter what directions we take, we generally take them with passion and purpose, whether or not we ultimately get where we want to go. I recently met Priscilla O’Reilly, the Vice President of Public Relations for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>His life is over.  Does he need to be killed?</title>
		<link>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2012/03/16/his-life-is-over-does-he-need-to-be-killed/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2012/03/16/his-life-is-over-does-he-need-to-be-killed/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Mar 2012 21:51:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geri</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not in the business of defending murderers (I leave that to defense attorneys), and I&#8217;m not going to defend the American soldier who recently went on a killing rampage in Afghanistan.  But if I was his mother, or wife, and I heard people calling for the death penalty for my son, I think I&#8217;d [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Here we are, Snoopy, sitting in a pumpkin patch waiting for the Great Pumpkin.&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2012/03/11/just-you-wait-enry-iggins-just-you-wait/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2012/03/11/just-you-wait-enry-iggins-just-you-wait/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Mar 2012 21:04:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geri</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Waiting has never been my strong suit, but it&#8217;s become such a necessity today that I have learned to deal with it. I wait for results of important medical tests without worrying myself sick about the outcome. Anxiety breeds more anxiety, which won&#8217;t change the results, anyway. I wait for companies to respond to my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bride and Prejudice</title>
		<link>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2012/03/05/bride-and-prejudice/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2012/03/05/bride-and-prejudice/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Mar 2012 16:16:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geri</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I was a magazine publisher, one of our biggest advertisers was a prejudiced man. By the time he revealed his dark side, we had become friends. He was cultured and smart, but he was prejudiced against anyone other than Caucasians. Learning this made me feel less friendly towards him, but I never told him [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Being alone is very difficult.&#8221; &#8212;  Yoko Ono</title>
		<link>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2012/02/29/being-alone-is-very-difficult-yoko-ono/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2012/02/29/being-alone-is-very-difficult-yoko-ono/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Mar 2012 00:46:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geri</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When FOF sister, Shelley, and I passed by a neighborhood coffee shop today, she announced, “I could never eat at a restaurant alone. I love being by myself, but that’s one thing I wouldn’t ever do.” “Why do you feel this way?” I asked. “I love to eat out alone.” “I think people would see [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>32</slash:comments>
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		<title>Slain in the prime of her selfless life</title>
		<link>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2012/02/24/slain-in-the-prime-of-her-selfless-life/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2012/02/24/slain-in-the-prime-of-her-selfless-life/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2012 22:25:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geri</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am fascinated by war correspondents because they’ll stop at nothing to place themselves in harm’s way.  As bullets and missiles fly all around them and they’re engulfed by riots, they steadfastly give us the news. I’m not sure I admire them or think they’re a bit nutty; perhaps it’s a little of both. But [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Fifties Are Not Coming Back</title>
		<link>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2012/02/18/14604/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2012/02/18/14604/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Feb 2012 03:26:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geri</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I respect a woman&#8217;s decision not to have an abortion, even if she&#8217;s ill prepared -financially or emotionally&#8211;to be a mother. I don&#8217;t have to agree with her. It&#8217;s her choice. It&#8217;s her life. I understand the myriad reasons women become pregnant in the first place, some good and some horrific. Unless we make it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>If only she thought of herself when she sang: &#8220;I Will Always Love You&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2012/02/13/if-only-she-thought-of-herself-when-she-sang-i-will-always-love-you/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2012/02/13/if-only-she-thought-of-herself-when-she-sang-i-will-always-love-you/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 16:07:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geri</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m always pleased when I receive approbation for a job well done. It feels good when someone tells me they love an essay I wrote, a sweater I knit, an event I produced, a website I launched. But as happy as compliments make me, I can live without them. Literally, I mean . Whitney Houston [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>10</slash:comments>
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		<title>Mimi and &#8220;Mr. President&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2012/02/09/mimi-and-mr-president/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2012/02/09/mimi-and-mr-president/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:07:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geri</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When JFK was president, we obsessed over wife Jackie&#8217;s pillbox hats and elegant jewels, cooed over John John&#8217;s toddler antics in the Oval Office and mourned when the beautiful couple lost their infant son, Patrick. We eagerly watched the family&#8217;s touch football games in Hyannisport and wondered aloud what family patriarch, Joe, thought about after [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>Do you inspire confidence?</title>
		<link>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2012/02/06/do-you-inspire-confidence/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2012/02/06/do-you-inspire-confidence/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 02:56:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geri</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I listened to and watched talented David Sanchez play the tenor saxophone at the Jazz Standard this weekend, the words &#8220;inspiring confidence&#8221; popped into my head. Like most accomplished jazz musicians, David plays with supreme assuredness. He&#8217;s got musical mojo. He knows he&#8217;s talented and he loves showering us with his jazzy sounds, infused [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Date My Single Kid Goes Live!</title>
		<link>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2012/02/01/date-my-single-kid-goes-live/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2012/02/01/date-my-single-kid-goes-live/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 21:50:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geri</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When FOF introduced a feature on the site in mid-2010, where moms could help “fix up” their single kids, we never dreamed the publicity floodgates would open. Colby and I were on The Today Show, The View, CNN, The Gayle King Show, and more.  We also were interviewed remotely for Canadian and Australian TV, German [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>A tribute to some husbands</title>
		<link>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2012/01/28/a-tribute-to-some-husbands/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2012/01/28/a-tribute-to-some-husbands/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 21:38:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geri</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Joel: Husband Numero Uno When I asked Lina what she was doing this weekend, she told me her husband, Joel, was taking her to dinner tonight at a romantic, little Italian restaurant in Manhattan. &#8220;He came home yesterday and announced that he got a babysitter and made reservations ,&#8221; Lina said. &#8220;It was a wonderful [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Where do you go to get anorexia?&#8221; Actress Shelley Winters, who always struggled with her weight</title>
		<link>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2012/01/25/where-do-you-go-to-get-anorexia-shelley-winters/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2012/01/25/where-do-you-go-to-get-anorexia-shelley-winters/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 23:25:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geri</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I need your advice and analysis. I have a close FOFriend who has lost over 45 pounds during the last eight months and looks marvelous.  She decided to change her eating habits because a cardiologist linked her high blood pressure in part to her weight. BUT…my FOFriend has become OBSESSED with her weight and she [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vodka vodka everywhere, but not a drop to drink</title>
		<link>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2012/01/22/vodka-vodka-everywhere-but-not-a-drop-to-drink/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2012/01/22/vodka-vodka-everywhere-but-not-a-drop-to-drink/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 01:04:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geri</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.faboverfifty.com/?p=14493</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I drank my first martini when I was in my twenties, appropriately at a business luncheon at tony &#8220;21 Club,&#8221; where it was the beverage of choice back in the day. The martini (vodka) became my favored drink throughout the seventies and eighties. I&#8217;d drink a couple at lunch many days and somehow managed to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Getting our mitts on his money</title>
		<link>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2012/01/18/getting-our-mitts-on-his-money/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2012/01/18/getting-our-mitts-on-his-money/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 03:31:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geri</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.faboverfifty.com/?p=14475</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[No one should have to apologize for being wealthy, unless they stole the money. I don’t resent a soul who inherited his or her wealth, won the lottery or hit a jackpot in Las Vegas.  And I applaud those who earned a fortune by working long and hard. Bashing rich business people has become our [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Orange you happy</title>
		<link>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2012/01/15/orange-you-happy/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2012/01/15/orange-you-happy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 04:08:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geri</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.faboverfifty.com/?p=14452</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I took an invigorating 2.5-mile walk with Rigby today, in the bitter cold.  We were both bundled up, so we didn’t feel the frigid temperature.  (Actually, I have no idea whether Rigby felt it, but he didn’t seem to mind, maybe because he’s a dog.) We were out for over four hours, which gave me [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Teachers Without Borders</title>
		<link>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2012/01/13/teachers-without-borders/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2012/01/13/teachers-without-borders/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 22:02:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geri</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.faboverfifty.com/?p=14447</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I’ll never forget how excited I was to be able to take a science course Pass/Fail. I knew I was smart enough to pass, with minimal effort, but if I had to take the course for a real grade, I’d be lucky to get a grade higher than 75. Science wasn’t my strong suit. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Just Call It &#8220;The American Association Of Ridiculous Postage&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2012/01/10/14424/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2012/01/10/14424/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 19:57:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geri</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.faboverfifty.com/?p=14424</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Help! I&#8217;m being buried in an avalanche of mailings from AARP/United Healthcare, telling me why I should sign up for their Medicare Supplement plan. Lest you think our health care system is on the way to cutting costs, let me set the record straight. It isn&#8217;t.  AARP is stalking me&#8211;and millions of other Baby Boomers&#8211;as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>They just don&#8217;t get it!</title>
		<link>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2012/01/07/they-just-dont-get-it/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2012/01/07/they-just-dont-get-it/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jan 2012 02:15:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geri</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A friend emailed me recently asking if I knew anyone who is retiring this year.  A producer friend of hers is working on TV videos for Prudential that feature FOF women—and men—telling their real-life stories on &#8220;Day One&#8221; of their retirement and she was looking for subjects.  I don’t know a soul who is retiring, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Will you ever learn?!?</title>
		<link>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2012/01/04/will-you-ever-learn/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2012/01/04/will-you-ever-learn/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 14:52:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geri</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.faboverfifty.com/?p=14384</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When I was in tenth grade (14-15) I needed my father&#8217;s help with geometry. He was a math genius, but the last thing he wanted to do was teach me anything at 11 pm, when he would generally finish with the last patient in his dental practice. His satellite office was in our basement. When [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mother Theresa (not to mention wife, sister, mother, trusted employee and wonderful friend)</title>
		<link>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2012/01/01/mother-theresa-not-to-mention-wife-sister-mother-trusted-employee-and-wonderful-friend/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2012/01/01/mother-theresa-not-to-mention-wife-sister-mother-trusted-employee-and-wonderful-friend/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 22:32:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geri</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.faboverfifty.com/?p=14351</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It took FOF Theresa and me four hours to catch each other up on the last 30 years of our lives. We last saw one another in 1980, when I left Norelco as publicity director to become a writer for the Daily News. Seven years younger, Theresa had been my (very able) assistant until she [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s their turn, but they&#8217;ve left the game</title>
		<link>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2011/12/28/14333/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2011/12/28/14333/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 14:52:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geri</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When favorite son Colby (I have only one son) suggested yesterday that I sign up to play Scrabble with him online, I immediately reacted.  I love Scrabble and thought it would be fun to play with him since he&#8217;s a guy who likes words. Well, here we are, 24 hours later, and we&#8217;ve yet to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Foods for thought</title>
		<link>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2011/12/26/foods-for-thought/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2011/12/26/foods-for-thought/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Dec 2011 22:48:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geri</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.faboverfifty.com/?p=14314</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Some of my fondest memories revolve around food. Our parents took me and my sisters to a restaurant called Patricia Murphy&#8217;s most every Thanksgiving. The waiters would carry baskets full of homemade popovers that were still warm from the oven. I loved poking a hole in the beautiful brown outer crust  to let out the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Taking quite a trip!</title>
		<link>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2011/12/25/14296/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2011/12/25/14296/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Dec 2011 13:41:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geri</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I tripped while I was walking with my beautiful daughter, Simone, yesterday morning&#8211;we were on our way to check out a new discount clothing store on upper Broadway&#8211;and landed face down on the sidewalk. Blood was gushing from my head but I had no idea where it originated. As I assessed whether I was intact&#8211;teeth ok? [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Count Your Blessings!</title>
		<link>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2011/12/20/count-your-blessings/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2011/12/20/count-your-blessings/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 23:21:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geri</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.faboverfifty.com/?p=14265</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I am embarrassed when I contrast the minutiae that often consume many of us with the gigantic problems others face throughout the world.  While applying makeup this morning I listened to news about the flash floods in the southern Philippines that have killed 1,000 so far.  The victims didn’t exactly live luxuriously in the first [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My office CPC (Christmas Party Confession)</title>
		<link>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2011/12/18/my-office-cpc/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2011/12/18/my-office-cpc/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Dec 2011 17:11:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geri</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.faboverfifty.com/?p=14255</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I am going to make a big confession that relates to a fact I learned today: Over 70 percent of people surveyed by WET, which makes a line of intimacy products, said they consider holiday parties a good opportunity to hookup and 44 percent of respondents confessed that they, or someone they knew, hooked up with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Complaint department: CLOSED!</title>
		<link>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2011/12/15/complaint-department-closed/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2011/12/15/complaint-department-closed/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 04:40:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geri</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.faboverfifty.com/?p=14238</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Delta Airlines security line was impossibly long at JFK Airport earlier this week, when my son and I were headed to LA. Colby had arrived at the airport earlier and sailed through security, but a big line had formed by the time I got to the terminal. Passengers became anxious about missing their flights [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;I&#8217;ll show you!&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2011/12/11/ill-show-you/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2011/12/11/ill-show-you/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Dec 2011 14:17:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geri</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.faboverfifty.com/?p=14227</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Remember when you were young and immature and stormed out of a room in the middle of a heated argument with a friend? Or had a friend storm out on you. You thought you were making a big point by walking out.  Darn it, you were right, and you weren&#8217;t going to listen to another [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Holier than thou</title>
		<link>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2011/12/07/holier-than-thou/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2011/12/07/holier-than-thou/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 23:14:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geri</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.faboverfifty.com/?p=14207</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I’ve never been a big fan of Martha Stewart’s icy demeanor and hoity-toity attitude (I’ve met and worked with her on a few occasions, even traveled with her on a private plane from Florida to New York), but I greatly admire her work ethic and creativity. She’s still going strong at 70 (mentally and physically) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>OMG, I&#8217;m eligible for Medicare!</title>
		<link>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2011/12/05/omg-im-eligible-for-medicare/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2011/12/05/omg-im-eligible-for-medicare/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 00:17:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geri</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.faboverfifty.com/?p=14191</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Hi FOFriends, This is not a typical Geri blog, but since the subject matter is important to many of us, I strayed from my usual style. I encourage you to read it, even if you don&#8217;t have the dubious distinction of turning 65. And, please visit FabOverFifty, if you don&#8217;t know it already.  It&#8217;s about the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>10 Top Yays and Nays</title>
		<link>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2011/12/03/10-top-yays-and-nays/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2011/12/03/10-top-yays-and-nays/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Dec 2011 04:10:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geri</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I AM TIRED OF&#8230; Restaurants that are so noisy, you have to shout at your dinner companion to be heard. Aggressive salespeople who attack me the moment I enter a store. Buying produce from fancy food stores, only to open packages of rancid strawberries, mealy tomatoes and tasteless, mushy  blueberries. Politicians who are genuine clowns [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A thing of beauty isn&#8217;t necessarily a joy forever</title>
		<link>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2011/12/01/a-thing-of-beauty-isnt-necessarily-a-joy-forever/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2011/12/01/a-thing-of-beauty-isnt-necessarily-a-joy-forever/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 22:53:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geri</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It really saddens me that no one ever goes on blind dates anymore. We can check out almost anything&#8211;about  almost anyone&#8211;with  a click of the mouse.  My FOF sister, Shelley, met her husband, in 1970, through a computer dating service.  You filled out an application (no essays, psycho-babble and mindless questions about how many martinis you slurp [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Joan&#8217;s language of loss</title>
		<link>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2011/11/29/joans-language-of-loss/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2011/11/29/joans-language-of-loss/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 18:56:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geri</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.faboverfifty.com/?p=14124</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Famous author, Joan Didion, was interviewed on TV this weekend about her new book, Blue Nights, a memoir about her adopted daughter, Quintana, who died from pancreatitis in 2005, at age 39. I bought the book and read it in a day since it’s a short work. I like the way FOF Joan writes. Her [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Treasure hunt on East 83rd Street</title>
		<link>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2011/11/27/14105/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2011/11/27/14105/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Nov 2011 13:46:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geri</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fab Over Fifty]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I started to clean out my co-op that will again be my home. My daughter has been living there for the past nine years, but she and her husband moved uptown the day before Thanksgiving, so I&#8217;m moving back. Rediscovering what I had left behind when I left the apartment brought back sweet and bittersweet [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thanksgiving 2011</title>
		<link>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2011/11/26/thanksgiving-2011/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2011/11/26/thanksgiving-2011/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Nov 2011 15:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geri</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This photo I took at Thanksgiving reminded me of Norman Rockwell&#8217;s famous painting, minus the turkey. Every year, we go to my sister Heidi&#8217;s home. This was the &#8220;kiddie&#8221; table, but a few FOFs (men, too) planted themselves there. &#160; A fraction of the delicious and beautiful food. Beautiful flowers and Spanish Marcona almonds. YUM. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Two Americans in Paris</title>
		<link>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2011/11/23/two-americans-in-paris/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 22:10:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geri</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’ve just returned from a week-long vacation in Paris with my dear FOFriend, Mary Ann. We&#8217;ve been to this exquisite city together many times over the last 20 years, both for business and fun, and it never stops being an exhilarating experience. This was the first time we stayed on the Rive Droite (Right Bank), [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I Nailed It!</title>
		<link>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2011/11/16/i-nailed-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 20:17:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geri</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am known to do some nutty things (not insane, but nutty) and the latest is buying $65 nail polish. That was not a typo. The bottle is the same size as $5 Revlon nail polish. It&#8217;s from Serge Lutens, a French photographer, filmmaker, hair stylist, perfume art director and fashion designer. I had already [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Male associations</title>
		<link>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2011/11/13/male-associations/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Nov 2011 14:57:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geri</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I listen to all the conversation about Herman Cain&#8217;s purported sexcapades when he headed The Restaurant Association,  I recall all the &#8220;association&#8221; heads I met in the seventies, most of whom made Cain look like an amateur. As an editor of a major trade publication that covered the home furnishings business, I met the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s all the excitement about?</title>
		<link>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2011/11/09/whats-all-the-excitement-about/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2011 13:50:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geri</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I remember how excited I got in college when gorgeous Barry Cunningham told me he thought about being with me while his girlfriend was away. I remember how excited I got when I was offered my first real job, as an assistant editor on Where Magazine. I remember how excited I got when I saw [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Last Angry Child</title>
		<link>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2011/11/06/the-last-angry-child/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2011/11/06/the-last-angry-child/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Nov 2011 14:28:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geri</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We all want perfect, happy children who  get good grades, have winning personalities and loads of friends, graduate from the best colleges, earn huge salaries, marry wonderful people and have wonderful children, and on and on. If they do well for themselves, we&#8217;re pleased as punch. If they don&#8217;t, and are sad, we&#8217;re sad, too. There&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>You won&#8217;t want to Ms. this</title>
		<link>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2011/11/02/you-wont-want-to-ms-this/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2011/11/02/you-wont-want-to-ms-this/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2011 23:35:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geri</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was 24 when Gloria Steinem launched Ms. Magazine and I thought it was written for uber-feminist misandrists. I was driven to succeed  as a writer and journalist, I had no interest in being a housewife and mother, and it never entered my mind that anyone would deny me anything because I was a woman.  I [...]]]></description>
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