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October 05, 2007 10:04 AM UTC --
It's just about noon as I write this, sitting at my desk on the 14th floor of my New York City apartment. (It's really the 13th, but the building owner is superstitious.) I'm thinking about . . .
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September 25, 2007 12:47 PM UTC --
I remember thinking, years ago, that when I retired I was going to play a lot more tennis. I'd always loved the game, and I knew exercise became even more important as you got older. What I didn't . . .
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September 06, 2007 02:09 PM UTC --
I just got off the phone with Nina Falk. I hadn't talked with her for 10 years, not since I visited the tiny village she lives in on Sacramento Street in Berkeley, California.
Back then, I was looking . . .
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August 14, 2007 03:32 PM UTC --
Question: What do Hillary Clinton, Billy Crystal, David Bowie, and Tom Clancy have in common?
Answer: They're all turning 60 this year.
Big deal.
Back when they were born, it really was a big deal. . . .
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July 30, 2007 02:49 PM UTC --
It's a fair question: What do I, as a male, have to say that's worth reading about women and cosmetic surgery? Particularly since I'm on the record, in my earlier Gather blog, as putting down . . .
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July 25, 2007 12:51 PM UTC --
My friend was in his middle 50s, and he had just informed me he was thinking about getting a tummy tuck. My reaction was instinctual and instantaneous: "Are you kidding?"
No, I don't live . . .
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March 19, 2007 09:28 AM UTC --
I've done lots of traveling since I passed the half-century mark, much of it undercover -- that is, without announcing that I was the editor of The New York Times travel section. I wanted to experience . . .
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March 12, 2007 09:41 AM UTC --
Sometimes all it takes is a few words from a stranger to make me straighten up and fly right. Here are some words I came across the other day that might just do that for you: "So many of what we thought . . .
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February 26, 2007 03:25 PM UTC --
According to the Census Bureau, America's love affair with the suburbs is cooling off -- people are moving back to the cities in droves. And many of those migrants are in their 50s and beyond, men . . .
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February 19, 2007 09:34 AM UTC --
I first heard about the Institute for Retired Professionals (IRP) when a friend -- a psychiatrist who was, by the way, not retired -- urged me to check out the organization. He was an enthusiastic member. . . .
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February 07, 2007 09:57 AM UTC --
The other day I received an e-mail from a couple my wife and I had met during a visit to Austin, Texas. They were in their middle 50s, and they had taken early retirement from a family business in Colorado, . . .
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February 07, 2007 09:48 AM UTC --
How strange it is that, seemingly overnight, our notion of what it means to reach and pass the age of 50 has been turned upside down and inside out. What got me thinking about such matters was the invitation . . .
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January 15, 2007 04:31 PM UTC --
"There isn't a train I wouldn't take," Edna St. Vincent Millay wrote, "no matter where it's going." Me, too.
Sure, cars are convenient and democratic -- you can choose . . .
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December 07, 2006 04:28 PM UTC --
A century ago, E.M. Forster, British author of A Room With a View, came up with my favorite description of train stations. They are, he wrote, "our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them, . . .
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December 07, 2006 04:18 PM UTC --
I don't know about you, but the words "All Aboard" get my pulse racing and my feet twitching. I hear them and I'm ready to go -- to leave the routine behind and set out for somewhere, . . .
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July 27, 2006 06:05 AM UTC --
When he was a boy growing up in Boston back in the 1950s, Gene Cohen played word games and cribbage with his father, Ben. In the months before his dad died in 1997, a victim of Alzheimer's disease, . . .
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July 11, 2006 07:40 AM UTC --
The 20th century in America was all about the body and physical fitness. Medical care dramatically improved, and we learned to eat healthier foods, exercise regularly, and smoke fewer cigarettes. . . .
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July 06, 2006 07:57 AM UTC --
Once a year, a West Coast family goes camping to get away from it all: no newspapers, no cell phones, no radio. But once a week, on demand, the husband hikes miles back to the car and turns on the radio. . . .
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June 29, 2006 06:36 AM UTC --
Every Saturday morning, in households around the country and the world, millions of people of every age and circumstance do battle -- literally, head to head -- with a slim, mustachioed, mischievous genius . . .
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June 21, 2006 11:11 AM UTC --
One of my greatest pleasures, all too infrequent as it may be, is to discover that something I really enjoy doing is also good for me. That, in a nutshell, is what this new group is all about. We are Gathered . . .
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