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! A survival kit for the over 50's and those intending to be !
! Because you can run but you can't hide !
Its Just an Attitude
"Acting your age" is such a dumb idea I've
stopped trying ...
On The Brighter Side
You'd think you could open a newspaper, listen to
radio, watch TV or websurf without being warned ...
Another
Chicken Or Egg Question
What comes first ? Career or family ? ...
The "Over 50 Face"
We are each entirely responsible for our own face
after the age of 50 ...
Joys Of Senior Sex
"... when we al groped around leveling the sexual
playing field ..."
" She'll Kill Me "
No married man still breathing has not said this
at one time or another.
Or at least thought it.
Often.
Or, following the policy of keeping gender discrimination out of
things no fewer wedded women have confessed, "He'll kill me!"
Which, let's face it, beats saying, or thinking, "I'll kill
(insert loved-ones name)". Or worse, actually going through with
it.
But -- sticking to today's topic -- expressing a real or
imagined fear of being snuffed by a spouse is then normally
followed by, spoken or implied, "If (she or he) ever finds out."
And can be applied to a wide range of crimes and misdemeanours.
Like driving intoxicated without seat belts, lusting after a
playmate centrefold (male or female), ignoring a birthday or
anniversary, skipping a car-payment instalment or -- heaven
forbid -- neglecting to pay an already-late phone bill.
Arguably the greatest fear of being outed by a partner comes
during the very moment of committing -- in the strictest
biblical sense -- "hanky-panky".
Naturally I wouldn't know, but people tell me.
Blackmail, heresy, treason, embezzlement, hiding mutual assets
through off-shore money laundering channels and falsifying a
whiplash insurance claim also rank high.
My triumphant and much older opponent said it last week after
our weekly tennis match. "Darlene would kill me if she knew," he
gasped, after quickly slurping down two beers.
Now the man isn't exactly what you'd call a "newly-wed." But to
be absolutely sure I asked him.
"Oh no, we've been together through thick and thin now for
almost forty years."
"And you still say she'll kill you? Especially for drinking two
lousy beers, no matter how fast, after sweaty geriatric tennis?"
I asked mischievously.
"That's only one of the many things she'd kill me for," he
continued, without irony, seemingly glad to have someone to
unburden to, "if only she knew."
"Like what?" I asked.
"Well, smoking the big Havana cigars I enjoy so much, not taking
my daily cod liver oil, driving drunk without a seat belt and,
of course, forgetting to pay long-overdue phone bills."
"But surely after forty years you'd think she'd let you do
anything you want," I added, "wouldn't you? Even going so far
as, and speaking quite hypothetically, allowing and forgiving
you for some trifling 'infidelity'?"
"Don't even go there," he said looking frantically around, "if
she found out about that she really would kill me."
So Much More To
Achieve
But I'm not getting any satisfaction ...
Say Exactly What You
Mean
One of the great joys of aging comes when we
realize we can open-up, let loose ...
Jump-In On-Line
Feel like creating something really relevant
today ? ...
Is What We See What
We Get ?
To get the best results from our limited time on
earth ....