"Esquire Writers: We're Willing to Fuck Early Middle-Aged Ladies" Thank you, Gawker. Ok, my work is done here. No, really. I think in 15 days I will finally be on board with the middle-aged thing […]

"I get together with a group of friend with whom I went to high school (over 30 years ago now!) every few months for what we call "Boys Night Out."  It's an opportunity for us […]

I liked Her a lot. "Set in a slightly futuristic L.A., where men wear trousers comically high at the waist and Shanghai-style skyscrapers loom in the background, the movie stars Joaquin Phoenix as Theodore, a […]

"Michelle Obama is in many ways the embodiment of the contemporary, urban, well-heeled middle-aged American woman." I would agree with this.

I thought we had come to the consensus that middle aged means anyone over 35 even if I don't personally agree with it. However, The New York Times in an article, "Cool for Cats," currently […]

Do we really want to hear about the ­middle-aged escapades of Bridget Jones, the tipsy, ditsy, formerly 30-ish heroine of two previous novels and two previous movies? Easy answer: no!

"Jennifer Williams says she often feels like the oldest person on her block. When the 52-year-old corporate communications executive sets off for work in a suit, carrying a briefcase, with her hair in a bun, […]

I've been so fascinated and self-absorbed with middle age that I hadn't bothered thinking ahead to future horrors, uh, like being called elderly before your time. If I'm still blogging here when I hit elderly […]

Suicide has typically been viewed as a problem of teenagers and the elderly, and the surge in suicide rates among middle-aged Americans is surprising. From 1999 to 2010, the suicide rate among Americans ages 35 […]

I've mentioned this elsewhere, but I have little awareness of the overlap between who this, Goodies First, Facebook and Twitter. Anyway, I started  a separate blog, The Middle Ages (not to be confused with the […]