Posts Tagged: aging

Martha Stewart- Ageless Cover Girl or Timeless Cover Up

First, it was Cheryl Tiegs in the 1970s whose 20-something California girl good looks and smokin’ body I felt I could never live up to. Then it was Christie Brinkley’s perfect 10 bod raising the bar in the eighties. Bikini-clad

Martha Stewart- Ageless Cover Girl or Timeless Cover Up

First, it was Cheryl Tiegs in the 1970s whose 20-something California girl good looks and smokin’ body I felt I could never live up to. Then it was Christie Brinkley’s perfect 10 bod raising the bar in the eighties. Bikini-clad

Imagine Aging Boldly – How My Younger Self  Envisioned Me Aging

Buried in a sheaf of old yellowing drawings I did in 1977 as an art student was a selfie of sorts that caught my eye. The assignment given by my teacher at SVA was one I vividly remember. Draw yourself

Imagine Aging Boldly – How My Younger Self  Envisioned Me Aging

Buried in a sheaf of old yellowing drawings I did in 1977 as an art student was a selfie of sorts that caught my eye. The assignment given by my teacher at SVA was one I vividly remember. Draw yourself

Aging a Shocking Revelation

I’m at that awkward age. Turning 68 tomorrow feels a lot like I did when I turned 12. Neither here nor there. Not quite a teenager, but no longer really a child, I felt in limbo. The word tween didn’t

Aging a Shocking Revelation

I’m at that awkward age. Turning 68 tomorrow feels a lot like I did when I turned 12. Neither here nor there. Not quite a teenager, but no longer really a child, I felt in limbo. The word tween didn’t

Madonna Grammy's 2023

Madonna Still Provokes

I may not have immediately recognized Madonna at the 2023 Grammys the other night but I sure recognize the ageism and sexism that her altered looks have elicited. The backlash to her appearance was swift, vicious, and as biting as

Madonna Grammy's 2023

Madonna Still Provokes

I may not have immediately recognized Madonna at the 2023 Grammys the other night but I sure recognize the ageism and sexism that her altered looks have elicited. The backlash to her appearance was swift, vicious, and as biting as

The Problem With Aging Is the Problem

The real problem with aging is that we consider it a problem We don’t need to defy aging. We need to embrace it and not see it through the lens of decline. Or diminishment The images of “older women” were

The Problem With Aging Is the Problem

The real problem with aging is that we consider it a problem We don’t need to defy aging. We need to embrace it and not see it through the lens of decline. Or diminishment The images of “older women” were

How Old Is Old -Women, Aging and Art

How old is old is, an age-old question and the answer keeps changing especially for women. Forty may be the new thirty and sixty the new fifty, but aging itself continues to be seen as diminishment and decline. Long ascribed

How Old Is Old -Women, Aging and Art

How old is old is, an age-old question and the answer keeps changing especially for women. Forty may be the new thirty and sixty the new fifty, but aging itself continues to be seen as diminishment and decline. Long ascribed

A Womans Expiration date of Beauty Art by Sally Edelstein

Women and Beauty- Is there an Expiration Date?

Today I turn 64 and if I am to believe the media, I have long passed my expiration date of desirability as a woman. In fact to accept conventional wisdom about women, nothing matches their fear of visible signs of

A Womans Expiration date of Beauty Art by Sally Edelstein

Women and Beauty- Is there an Expiration Date?

Today I turn 64 and if I am to believe the media, I have long passed my expiration date of desirability as a woman. In fact to accept conventional wisdom about women, nothing matches their fear of visible signs of

BW picture woman and aging skin

Women and Aging – You Can Survive

Having just turned 60 I have now entered DEFCON 2 in the war against aging. That is, if we are to believe the media who have been waging  their own war against women and aging for years. After decades of

BW picture woman and aging skin

Women and Aging – You Can Survive

Having just turned 60 I have now entered DEFCON 2 in the war against aging. That is, if we are to believe the media who have been waging  their own war against women and aging for years. After decades of

Vintage cartoon Horny Granny 1974

An Age Old Problem: Women and Aging

Growing up, being an “older” woman was not a pretty picture – literally. Predictably, post-menopausal women were pictured pleasingly plump their sagging jowls and sagging breasts as slumping as their sedentary, asexual lives that were defined by grandchildren, gossip and

Vintage cartoon Horny Granny 1974

An Age Old Problem: Women and Aging

Growing up, being an “older” woman was not a pretty picture – literally. Predictably, post-menopausal women were pictured pleasingly plump their sagging jowls and sagging breasts as slumping as their sedentary, asexual lives that were defined by grandchildren, gossip and