Comments on: The Other Sandwich Generation

By: Breon

Breon — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 03:06:02 +0000

Prudence, I so get it–the invisibility, and wondering sometimes where all the attention went that really often just felt like a nuisance at the time, missing it a bit now that it’s mostly gone. It’s tough, you want to keep the wisdom, but it would be nice to have some of that youthful energy to enjoy it with. Oh well, maybe enlightenment is just around the corner and we won’t care anymore.

By: christie

christie — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 14:07:31 +0000

Couldnt disagree more with Margery. Invisible? To whom? I am 60 and the real me has never been more visible and never garnered as much attention. I often felt when I was younger that I was visible in parts (you know which parts and in what order). Now I am seen AND heard. Fab!

By: dearpru

dearpru — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 16:14:32 +0000

Great attitude, Julie. I felt the same way during my reproductive tract’s Grande Finale (not to dissimilar from the fireworks show by the same moniker). I felt tethered to the house…and now, well, it’s another story. Just goes to show that Thomas Jefferson was right. You don’t really miss a place — even an uncomfortably wet and crampy one — until you’ve left it forever. (Okay, he said this about Paris, but whatever!)

By: Julie

Julie — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 21:11:31 +0000

Reading this as I bleed through one pad per hour over the last week. Surely, I hopefully pray, my very last period. I am SO READY to be done with the fertile body, leaving more time for the fertile mind.

Sex got better with my husband’s loss of fertility (vasectomy), I am looking forward to it getting even better with mine!

Celebrating each stage of life. . . .enjoying your writing,
Julie

By: rosemary

rosemary — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 01:30:43 +0000

Oh, and speaking of wrinkles, here’s another quote by the author of “A Wrinkle in Time”:

The great thing about getting older is that you don’t lose all the other ages you’ve been. ~Madeleine L’Engle

By: rosemary

rosemary — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 00:54:46 +0000

Well, I guess it depends on how you look at aging:

As a graduate of the Zsa Zsa Gabor School of Creative mathematics, I honestly do not know how old I am. ~Erma Bombeck

Old age is a matter of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter. – Mark Twain

By: Cathy

Cathy — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 17:23:42 +0000

I’ve heard that grapefruit scents are perceived as making the wearer seem younger. I love that smell. But as I fade into the hormonal background, I’m still attracted to the young ones. How does that work? At a party the other night, it was the 28-year-old son that was the most interesting. Call me a cougar I guess…