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Aging Fabulous

February 17th, 2007

Today’s Quote about Winter

There is a privacy about it which no other season gives you…. In spring, summer and fall people sort of have an open season on each other; only in the winter, in the country, can you have longer, quiet stretches when you can savor belonging to yourself.
Ruth Stout
I’m going to have to give this a […]

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January 15th, 2007

A Woman’s Dress and Barb Wire

I guess I just never thought about it this way…
“A woman’s dress should be like a barbed-wire fence- serving its purpose without obstructing the view.”
Sophia Loren
*Sophia Loren’s Recipes and Memories
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January 15th, 2007

She’d Choose Food and then Sex

“If I had to choose between sex and food, I would choose food. But I’d choose sex over nearly everything else.”
Helen Gurley Brown
Anyone want to add anything to that??
*Sex and the Single Girl
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January 8th, 2007

Gorm’s Wisdom - Janaury 8th

If you like quotes, you just have to check out advice from… Gorm. All you do is point Gorm in the direction that you are most interested in and he will provide you with advice on the topic. A lot of the time, it doesn’t make a bit of sense but then as if […]

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November 11th, 2006

Mindless Wishing

“Stop the mindless wishing that things would be different. Rather than wasting time and emotional and spiritual energy in explaining why we don’t have what we want, we can start to pursue other ways to get it.” -Greg Anderson
It does absolutely no good to merely sit and wish that something wonderful would happen to […]

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October 27th, 2006

Charles Dickens’ Thoughts on Aging

“As I said just now, the world has gone past me. I don’t blame it; but I no longer understand it. Tradesmen are not the same as they used to be, apprentices are not the same, business is not the same, business commodities are not the same. Seven-eighths of my stock is old-fashioned. I am […]

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October 24th, 2006

The aging process

Life - It began in mystery and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.
Diane Ackerman
So, it is extremely important to fill in those inbetween years with as much as possible. That means every day should be an adventure! When you think about it, all of those wasted […]

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October 23rd, 2006

About aging… it doesn’t really matter

“No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.”
– John Cassavetes
I’m really creative when it comes to shopping… does that count?? So, what are you really creative about? I think I need to add a few things to my list!! I once […]

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October 19th, 2006

Just how radical are you these days??

“It is my feeling that as we grow older we should become not less radical but more so. I do not, of course, mean this in any political-party sense, but in a willingness to struggle for those things in which we passionately believe.”
Margaret Laurence
Margaret Lawrence lived a few miles from my mom in a little […]

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October 17th, 2006

Today’s quote… how the years teach us

The years teach much which the days never knew. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Have to admit that I think that I’m a lot wiser than I was… lets say… in my twenties. It’s my blog, I can say things like that! And yes, I’m thinking about that pot of coffee that is probably still warm downstairs. […]

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