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	<description>Celebrating Women of Style and Substance</description>
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		<title>Do you inspire confidence?</title>
		<link>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2012/02/06/do-you-inspire-confidence/</link>
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		<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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		<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>
				<category><![CDATA[Fab Over Fifty]]></category>

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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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		<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>
				<category><![CDATA[Fab Over Fifty]]></category>

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		<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>
				<category><![CDATA[Fab Over Fifty]]></category>

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		<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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		<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>
				<category><![CDATA[Fab Over Fifty]]></category>

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		<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>
				<category><![CDATA[Fab Over Fifty]]></category>

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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>
				<category><![CDATA[Fab Over Fifty]]></category>

		<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>
				<category><![CDATA[Fab Over Fifty]]></category>

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		<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>
				<category><![CDATA[Fab Over Fifty]]></category>

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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>
				<category><![CDATA[Fab Over Fifty]]></category>

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		<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>
				<category><![CDATA[Fab Over Fifty]]></category>

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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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		<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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		<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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		<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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		<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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		<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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		<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>
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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>
		<comments>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2011/11/23/two-americans-in-paris/#comments</comments>
		<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>
		<comments>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2011/11/16/i-nailed-it/#comments</comments>
		<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>
		<comments>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2011/11/13/male-associations/#comments</comments>
		<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>
		<comments>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2011/11/09/whats-all-the-excitement-about/#comments</comments>
		<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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		<title>Cool it!</title>
		<link>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2011/10/31/cool-it/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2011/10/31/cool-it/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 19:55:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geri</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[David, Rigby and I waked around Soho yesterday with nephew Max and his good friend, Will, where it dawned on me that the world of young people is basically divided into two sectors: Those who feel disenfranchised and those who are cool, or at least think they&#8217;re cool. &#160; Soho is one of the meccas [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Deux amies à Paris</title>
		<link>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2011/10/30/deux-amies-a-paris/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2011/10/30/deux-amies-a-paris/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Oct 2011 04:43:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geri</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[FOFriend, Kara, has been divorced for years.  A lawyer, she has a 31-year-old married daughter, who lives across the country.  I ran into her at the nail salon yesterday, where we quickly caught up, as FOFs do so well. Kara&#8217;s daughter is expecting a child in the spring; she&#8217;s worked harder in the last year [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can we really repair damaged goods?</title>
		<link>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2011/10/27/can-we-really-repair-damaged-goods/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2011/10/27/can-we-really-repair-damaged-goods/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2011 23:34:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geri</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s always hard to fathom why some of the most determined, driven, attractive and successful women are also the neediest when it comes to men. A FOF friend found out her (second) husband of 15 years has been a serial cheater. She&#8217;s filed for divorce but hasn&#8217;t left him and has persistently tortured herself ever [...]]]></description>
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		<title>If your name is &#8216;SugieWogie,&#8217; you&#8217;ve got to be interesting</title>
		<link>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2011/10/25/13823/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2011/10/25/13823/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2011 22:36:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geri</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the best parts of my job at FabOverFifty is meeting smart, passionate, driven, wonderful women who love to share their ideas and enthusiasms. Every week I talk to FOFs who are starting new businesses or looking for new outlets for their talents. We are a generation that doesn’t stop looking for new challenges [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This topped it all</title>
		<link>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2011/10/24/this-topped-it-all/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2011/10/24/this-topped-it-all/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2011 21:14:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geri</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you happened to read my blog entry on September 2, you’d know that my daughter, Simone, and her long-time boyfriend, Noel, went to City Hall on August 19 to be married. Since no one from our family was at the ceremony, we had a celebration this past Saturday at a wonderful Italian restaurant in lower [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It only takes a moment</title>
		<link>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2011/10/23/it-only-takes-a-moment-2/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2011/10/23/it-only-takes-a-moment-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Oct 2011 14:50:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geri</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A video of Stephanie&#8217;s marriage to Mark in 2004 is the stuff that inspires envy. Pretty young woman meets handsome young man. The son of one of the most successful men on Wall Street, the groom earns a great deal, too, working for a division of his dad&#8217;s company&#8211;along with his brother. The happy couple [...]]]></description>
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		<title>They&#8217;re so pretty, oh so pretty!</title>
		<link>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2011/10/20/theyre-so-pretty-oh-so-pretty/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2011/10/20/theyre-so-pretty-oh-so-pretty/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2011 16:02:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geri</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I looked out our 11th floor bedroom window a few nights ago, I saw the pretty flowers on sale outside the grocery store, directly across the street. Since most Manhattanites don&#8217;t have backyards and gardens of our own, it&#8217;s a treat to see so many flowers, even if they&#8217;re 11 flights away. Appreciate beauty [...]]]></description>
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		<title>From the depths of despair</title>
		<link>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2011/10/19/from-the-depths-of-despair/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2011/10/19/from-the-depths-of-despair/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2011 21:35:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geri</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Action is the antidote to despair&#8221;&#8211;Joan Baez A lawyer in affluent Westchester County, a NYC suburb, killed his wife and two sleeping children yesterday, then shot himself. The couple reportedly was going through a bitter divorce. The kids were 8 and 10 and neighbors said they were a &#8220;beautiful&#8221; family. It is impossible to fathom [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It finally deserves to be called Chic-o&#8217;s!</title>
		<link>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2011/10/17/it-finally-deserves-to-be-called-chic-os/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2011/10/17/it-finally-deserves-to-be-called-chic-os/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2011 19:49:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geri</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first time I went into Chico&#8217;s, about a decade ago, I took one look at the clothes and knew they weren&#8217;t for me.  I remember appliqués, uninspired patterns, oversized tops, gaudy colors, cheesy fabrics. My mom, who was with me, loved everything. I bought her a top. I glanced at the Chico&#8217;s windows every time [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Have I got an idea for you</title>
		<link>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2011/10/15/have-i-got-an-idea-for-you/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2011/10/15/have-i-got-an-idea-for-you/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Oct 2011 22:19:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geri</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I rarely take ideas from anyone,&#8221; a young woman emailed me this morning, in response to my suggestion that she meet someone I know who could  give her valuable ideas for her job. What a strange reply, I thought. Does she believe that no one could possibly have an idea better than her ideas? Is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Getting real</title>
		<link>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2011/10/13/getting-real/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2011/10/13/getting-real/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Oct 2011 00:12:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geri</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Even if I had a steaming hot body and a face that stopped traffic when I was 42, I wouldn’t have wanted to marry a 27-year-old guy.  I would have worried that he’d be less attracted to me when I was approaching FOF and he was 35, that he might want children someday, and that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My paean to L&#8217;Oreal</title>
		<link>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2011/10/12/my-paean-to-loreal/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2011/10/12/my-paean-to-loreal/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2011 23:39:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geri</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When we were young girls and ladies growing up all over the country,  a beauty company from France, named L&#8217;Oreal, was growing up right along with us. I remember my mom&#8217;s hairdresser, Mario, using L&#8217;Oreal to  cover her grays. I thought, &#8216;I&#8217;ll never go through all that!&#8217; I remember the first time time I splurged [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Getting in the last&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2011/10/10/13581/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 00:24:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geri</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[-WORD &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; A new trend is making its way across cyberspace, which I call &#8220;Getting the last e-word.&#8221;  Not unlike getting the last word in a debate or the final summation in a trail, getting the last e-word means just what it says: Making an emphatic point in an online argument that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>For daddy</title>
		<link>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2011/10/09/for-daddy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Oct 2011 16:27:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geri</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My father would have beamed with pride a few days ago, when his youngest daughter and my FabOverFifty sister, Heidi, received a Lifetime Achievement Award from American Banker magazine at its 9th Annual dinner celebrating &#8220;The 25 Most Powerful Women in Banking.&#8221; Daddy had no sons but he always told his three girls &#8220;make something [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Meet Snarkster Anne and Sniping Sheila</title>
		<link>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2011/10/08/to-thine-own-self-be-true/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Oct 2011 22:36:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geri</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Wall Street Journal ran a column today about the FOF Beauty Bash, which reveals more about the  40-year-old woman who wrote it, Anne Kadet, than about the Bash itself. Snarkster* Anne Kadet is in the middle (see definition of &#8216;snarkster&#8217; below, from Urban Dictionary) Photo from www.smugmug.com &#160; It is a snarky column, poking [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bravo!</title>
		<link>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2011/10/05/bravo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2011 20:40:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geri</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It thrills me to do things I love to do, but don&#8217;t do often. Going to the ballet ranks high on this list. FOF sister, Heidi,  treated me tonight to a New York City Ballet performance of Jewels, choreographed by George Balanchine. I know next to nothing about ballet, but I&#8217;m always transfixed by the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>“Justice has nothing to do with what goes on in a courtroom; Justice is what comes out of a courtroom.”&#8211;Clarence Darrow</title>
		<link>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2011/10/03/%e2%80%9cjustice-has-nothing-to-do-with-what-goes-on-in-a-courtroom-justice-is-what-comes-out-of-a-courtroom-%e2%80%9d-clarence-darrow/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Oct 2011 02:28:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geri</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am happy for Amanda Knox, the 24-year-old American girl whose conviction for murder was overturned today in an Italian court. She has spent the last four years in prison, convicted of murdering her housemate, an English girl. Amanda, upon hearing she will be freed A court-appointed review of the DNA discredited the crucial genetic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Bash was a Smash!</title>
		<link>http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2011/10/02/the-bash-was-a-smash/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Oct 2011 23:02:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geri</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I haven&#8217;t blogged in almost four days because I&#8211;and everyone else at FOF--has been consumed with the production of the first FOF Beauty Bash, in New York, which ended a couple of hours ago.  My feet are killing me, my brain is mush and I don&#8217;t want to talk to a soul for the next [...]]]></description>
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