When you get married, you usually get a lot more in the bargain.Your new spouse's parents and siblings are included.A new marriage may come with ready-made kids, too.But there's more! Just like in the late-night commercials, a new husband or wife comes with extras, otherwise known as aunts, uncles, cousins, exes (they don't just disappear), school chums, BFFs, co-workers and various hangers-on.When you understand this, you suddenly realize why wedding vows include the line "for better or for worse.".Sometimes it's worse.But often, these fellow travelers make life's journey much more rewarding.My wife, with whom I will celebrate our 29th anniversary next week, came with two of the best in-laws anyone could want.I knew this even as a clueless 25-year-old bridegroom.The bonus in my wife's package was her aunt, Margaret, who occupied the downstairs part of her family's compact home in Queens, N.Y.Margaret was born in 1916 to a Hungarian Jewish family.The armistice that ended World War I came on Margaret's second birthday.Her elder sister emigrated to Palestine as a young woman; her younger sister, Eleanor, arrived when Margaret was 4 and (much later) became my mother-in-law.There were also two brothers, one of whom became a rabbi, and a third sister, Lily.Much later, in America, Eleanor raised a daughter into the wonderful woman I married.She also, for 25 years, supplied me with chocolate cake as though it was her life's mission.But Margaret was different.Her mother tried to teach her the cooking and other domestic skills that were expected of a young Jewish woman in Hungary between the wars.It wasn't that Margaret did not want to learn; she just never got the hang of how a kitchen operates.Not too long after I was married, my wife and her parents left town for a relative's funeral.I remained behind because I was a tax accountant and it was the height of the busy season.My mother-in-law carefully prepared some food for me, and I came over to enjoy the meal.Not wanting me to have a cold dinner, Margaret put it on the stove and incinerated it.Margaret wanted to be a scientist.Few Jews were granted access to higher education in Hungary in the 1930s, and not many women went beyond gymnasium, the rough equivalent of high school.The odds were stacked high against the bookish Margaret.But somehow she made it through the system and, in 1943, received her Ph.D.From the University of Debrecen.Her thesis topic was "Ultramicro Mercury Determination Under Various Conditions and in the Presence of Other Metals." The printed diploma bore typewritten cross-outs and corrections to acknowledge the gender of the recipient; it also recited that she was "26 years of age, of the Hebrew religion.".And then the Nazis came.Hungary had a Fascist government that was aligned with Germany through much of World War II.Jews were subjected to many restrictions, but while huge numbers were shot or sent to extermination camps in territory that Germany had captured in Poland and the Soviet Union, Hungarian Jews were relatively safe under their own country's government until 1944.That year, as the tide of the war turned and the Germans fought to hold back their collapsing Eastern front, they took direct control of the handling of Hungarian Jews.Margaret's older brother Joseph, the rabbi, was sent to Bergen-Belsen that April.He was beaten to death there.By June, the three sisters and their mother had been sent to Auschwitz.They never saw Lily or their mother again, but Eleanor and Margaret were just the right age for forced labor.They found one another in the camp.(Their other brother survived another concentration camp and lived in Hungary through the postwar Communist era.).Just before the Soviets captured Auschwitz in the winter of 1945, the Germans marched the remaining able-bodied inmates westward, to a munitions factory in Germany.Margaret and Eleanor worked there for the remainder of the war.Allied soldiers were horrified by the condition of the surviving Jews at the end of the war.Eleanor and Margaret were relocated to a displaced persons camp.One day, the young American actor Mickey Rooney visited the camp, leading a dog on a leash.He spotted Eleanor and, sensing she was hungry, handed her a piece of salami.Unimpressed, or maybe just not hungry, Eleanor fed the cold cut to Rooney's dog.For decades afterward, she and Margaret chuckled at the story.My wife's parents met and married in the displaced persons camp.Margaret and Eleanor had relatives who lived in the United States prior to the war.They sponsored the family and, in 1946, Margaret and my wife's parents were among the last immigrants to pass through Ellis Island.Female Ph.D.Scientists were almost as uncommon in New York in the early postwar years as they had been in Hungary before the war.Margaret pursued her independent course, finding work in a series of hospital laboratories.She enjoyed the Manhattan cultural scene with her many friends, and when my wife was born, she became a doting aunt.She bought the home in Queens jointly with my future in-laws in 1969.Desk drawers in a basement office are filled with her spiral-bound lab notes from that era.She saved money conscientiously, putting most of it in Treasury bills and bank accounts - she and her sister seemed to try to open accounts at every bank in Queens - but also collecting a few blue-chip stocks like AT&T and Consolidated Edison.Margaret and our kids adored one another.Our first daughter, as a toddler, could not say her great-aunt's name, so she called her Mimi."Mimigo! Mimigo!" she would demand when she wanted to go downstairs to visit Margaret.Later, as she strung more words together, it was "Mommymimigo!" Margaret retired in the 1980s but remained mentally sharp for a long time.Deeply interested in health and medicine, my wife's aunt fed her copious information as we confronted the usual childhood health issues.Seven years ago, Margaret suddenly declined.She became confused and depressed, and her medications made her unsteady on her feet.She went to assisted living, but she would often fall in her apartment.The facility's monitors would find her and send her to the hospital, but with each hospitalization Margaret seemed to become more frail and confused.She soon needed 24-hour private aides, even at the assisted living apartment.Through a combination of sheer persistence and luck, my wife found some excellent aides.They restored Margaret to a semblance of herself.One day, she looked at the on-duty aide and said, "Let's go home." And they went back to the house in Queens.This put Margaret back under the same roof as her sister and brother-in-law, and it stretched the money she had saved.Competent, caring, 24-hour home attendants are not cheap, but Margaret's savings, pension and Social Security were enough.Besides the physical benefits - Margaret never had a serious fall again - the aides offered conversation and companionship.An aide's toddler granddaughter delighted Margaret.So did her grandnieces, my daughters, as they grew up, graduated college and started their own careers.My wife managed Margaret's aides, the household and the doctors; I looked after her finances.And, to the occasional irritation of my wife, Margaret came to see me as her chief caretaker and benefactor.The aides advertised my visits days in advance.There was always a big cup of tea and a stack of cookies for me.Fortunately, the aides baked the cookies.Margaret died yesterday morning, nearly two years to the day after her sister Eleanor.Today we will say our final goodbyes on a patch of lawn a short stroll away from my mother-in-law's grave.The marker next to Margaret's plot bears the name of another woman called Mimi, with the legend, "What a loss!".Amen.We lost a lot when we lost Margaret, but I gained much more when she came in the package with my wife.It's all part of the deal.
Many women with fertility problems are seeking natural approaches to treatment.Chinese fertility herbs may be one of the most effective natural options but women need to understand that Chinese herbs and western herbs are not used the same way.Who Uses Herbs for Infertility?Treating reproductive problems with herbs is a very attractive idea for many women.They seem less sterile and more in tune with nature and in alignment with the miracle of bringing a new life into the world.They work slowly and gently and like most gifts from nature they are much less costly than products manufactured by man.For the millions of American women who do not have health insurance, herbs offer hope when expensive high tech procedures and drugs are completely out of reach.Fertility herbs are also sought after by women who have tried all the treatments modern medicine has to offer to no avail.For these women, there seems to be something missing that even the best infertility doctors cannot identify.Sometimes, these women prefer to try a completely different approach; one that has no scientific studies other than the stories passed on from one woman to the next year after year and century after century.A special group of women seeking the help of fertility herbs are women in their late 30's and early 40's who have been told by their doctors that blood tests indicate they are too old to conceive naturally without the use of a donor egg from a much younger women.Some of these women say they feel in their hearts that they can still conceive and so they seek out herbs that have been used by women for eons to assist them in this journey.American Fertility Herbs - One Size Fits All.There really aren't many western herbs that are believed to effect fertility.The literature mentions black cohash, false unicorn horn, nettle leaves, primrose oil, red clover, red raspberry leaves, caste tree berry and wild yam.The herbal fertility blends that can be purchased at a health food store or vitamin store contain some or all of these herbs.All types of fertility problems are treated with these same few herbs.Every woman is treated the same.There are no known criteria or standards to determine how much or how little of these herbs are effective or for how long a woman should take them to get the desired effect.Chinese Fertility Herbs - Each a Unique Blend.Chinese herbs unlike western herbs are always combined into complex and precise formulas.Each woman's formula is elegantly designed by a highly trained herbalist to treat a separate set of signs and symptoms in that particular woman.A Chinese herbalist is trained to recognize the subtle signs of imbalances which indicate or lead to fertility problems.The Chinese herbalist will choose from literally thousands of medicinal herbs to create the specific formula to address the imbalance and correct the problem.Each formula is uniquely designed and made up of around 8 to 13 herbs.The amount of each ingredient is precisely measured to the half gram and recorded so that the formula can be modified and changed as needed.There are records of formulas written thousands of years ago which are still used today to treat the modern woman.Effectiveness of Chinese Fertility Herbs.At least 3000 years of continuous use by millions of women is a good test of the effectiveness of Chinese herbs.If they did not work or if they had a negative effect, logic tells us that Chinese herbalists would have stopped prescribing these herbs at least 1000 years ago.We cannot say that western drugs have pasted the same test.Many drugs seem to become obsolete after a few years.While others are taken off the market completely when it revealed that they are actually harming people e.G.'hormone replacement therapies'.We will all be grateful when some pharmaceuticals are finally replaced by something gentler and more humane, e.G.Chemotherapy.How Herbs are Like Fertilizer.Pharmaceutical can work very quickly.If you have a headache you can take a pill and 20 minutes later your headache is gone.That is not how it works with Chinese herbs.Chinese herbs work in the same way as adding fertilizer to your rose bushes works.You add the fertilizer and tomorrow there is no effect on the plant but as it grows and develops the rose bush will become stronger and more beautiful.We give it what it needs and it flourishes.Progress is achieved in small steps not huge leaps.Generally speaking, a woman should consider taking a Chinese herbal formula for 3 to 6 months before seeing the full effectiveness of Chinese herbs.This would be considered two courses of herbs with each course being 3 months or about the same amount of time it takes for an egg to develop and grow before it is ready for ovulation.Chinese Herbal Formulas are Modified.Slowly the body changes and at the same time the formula which was designed to balance a particular condition must be modified as the condition changes.If a woman continued to take the same formula month after month her body would shift and change until it passed the point of equilibrium and balance and she would exhibit signs of a different type of imbalance.She would be no closer to health and may show signs which would be consider negative side-effects.The Root vs.The Branch.Chinese herbalist will discuss treating the root-of-the-problem and treating the branch.The root is considered the underlying cause of the problem.They would want to address the reason a woman's body creates a fibroid or an ovarian cyst rather than just getting rid of the cyst for example by removing it surgically.The ovarian cyst, for example, would be considered the branch or the off-shoot of the problem.Perhaps the root or cause of the problem was the woman's slow metabolism which caused the blood to stagnate resulting in the formation of cysts.In reality Chinese herbalists often treat the branch and the root at the same time for the best and lasting results.Common Fertility Problems Addressed with Chinese Herbs.Common Fertility Problems addressed with the help of Chinese fertility herbal blends are irregular periods, minimally blocked fallopian tubes, polycystic ovaries and fibroids, advanced maternal age and elevated FSH to name a few.Chinese herbs are also being utilized to maintain and prolong the reproductive health of women who would like to conceive into their 40's.Women around the world can confidently choose Chinese herbs to address their fertility needs when they have an understanding of the differences between the Western approach and the Traditional Chinese approach to the use of fertility herbs.
It's 6 P.M.Where's my wife? .I find here curled up in our bed, her eyes transfixed on a stranger who is also in MY bed.Emotions are running high.She's laughing - no, she's crying.Either way, I can tell she's in love.She says it is for good reasons, and that I would not understand.Well, I don't know if I can stand for it.What's stranger than fiction? The stranger is a piece of glass.Imagine what she would do if I told HER I was in love with a piece of glass.Yes, my wife is having an affair to remember, with an iPad.We are not great with technology, we don't love technology.We don't run to it, but we don't run from it, either.We are 57 years old.When the iPad came out, we thought it would flop.It seemed like a laptop that was missing some major items, like a keyboard.Truth be told, it is much like that.However, what makes it NOT a laptop, has given my wife a lot more than a new piece of tech.My wife is having an affair to remember.ROM COMS?Romantic comedies stream like fresh cream cascading over warm Huckleberry pie.If you're not subscribed to Net Flicks, you'll want it, if you get or have an iPad.At night, we often have a 3 way (the two of us and the iPad).We connect it to our projector with a special cable she got on amazon.The iPad becomes larger than life as the movie plays high on our wall.Check email?Yes, of course.At it's core (and I mean the processor, literally) the iPad ll is an iPhone 4.Email is easy to check and the virtual on-screen keyboard works better than you'd think it would.Bank Accounts? Play games? Listen to books? Search real estate? Write real estate offers? .Yes! Clients can sign contracts with their finger or a stylus.Younger clients see a 57-year-old who's up to speed with tech.Check list is the name of an app at the app store.It works great and replaces scraps of paper.What about the battery?The battery lasts for about 10 hours, depending on the activity.Does it break?It can break.Like the iPhone and iPod before it, the face is all glass.When it shatters, it must be replaced.Get the warranty and make sure broken glass is covered.If not, there are independent repair places which can fix it for around $140.The best insurance is a good carrying case.The bottom line?I have NEVER seen my wife be so in love with anything that wasn't breathing! Yes, this "laptop with things missing," is slick.It is thin, handsome and fills a tall order for my wife, who has her standards (poodles that is).The iPad slips into her purse, lounges next to her in the car.I can see it now. "But officer, he was just going to kiss her.".What do we have for you?
If you are a middle-aged woman (or past middle-age like me) and suspect that you may be starting to show signs of aging a little--cheeks starting to slide down and hang from your jaw, crow's-feet running into your hairline, saggy upper arms covering your elbows, and clothes' size expanding--don't get depressed.Any woman having problems with weight gain, self-esteem, and the whole aging thing may discover midlife and beyond offers opportunities to get physically in shape again and to use the wisdom and experiences we've gained to shape a new and perhaps happier vision of who we are and where we want to go.Since I have a thirty-six-year-old daughter, I know that even women younger than mid-life often have body-image and self-esteem problems.I also know that my own daughter, like most, has had at some point issues with taking advice from her mother.Now, I have found that these very basic female problems of body-image and loss of youth can help build a better relationship with your daughters and let you finally actually help them with some very personal problems.Simply by using my own aging as an opportunity to renew, set achievable weight and exercise goals and redefine who I am, I am able to give, through example, advice to my own daughter.I have also been able to open serious discussions with her on coping with the physical and mental changes that are a normal process of aging, societal ideas of what is desirable, and spiritual teachings that help women embrace and cultivate their strengths.I read quite a few books to come to this state, including Change Your Mind, Change Your Body. Feeling Good About Your Body and Self After 40, written by clinical psychologist Ann Kearney-Cooke with Florence Isaacs.This book offers a step-by-step plan to work on your body image which is easy and interesting to read and the strategies are actually doable.While the book Younger Next Year . A Guide to Living Like 50 Until You're 80 and Beyond by Henry Lodge and Chris Crowley is specifically written to be a how-to for men on turning back their biological clocks, I, as a woman, found it to be not only entertaining, but useful for a woman also.Both of these books and many others on self-help can be found at [http.//www.Booksisters.Com].Going into my sixth decade here, I'm more physically fit than I have been in a long time.I do what I can about wrinkles and sagging, but I'm not stressing about it.Even women need to show signs of "character" as they age.Not only does my happiness with aging improve my relationship with my daughter and give her positive thoughts about her own aging, it has also decreased some of her worry about what could happen with an aging parent.She now can assume I won't become a burden at some point.I intend on dropping dead while dancing at 110!
You know how hot it was.You really had to WANT to be out there.And they did, on baking playing fields which sprawl for about half a mile to the west of the enormous indoor complex south of Rt 30 near Coatesville.Nearly a dozen games on this Tuesday evening, all but one are girl's matches.A freshly-defeated team files off the field, their coach leading them up an embankment to a vacant spot, where he chides them for lackluster effort."We have our next shot on Thursday," he tells them."Blow it off this way again and you can forget about getting those letters from the colleges.They'll be using the backs of our programs to write down the names of other teams.".United Sports Center, mid-February, 8pm..Three of the indoor matches feature pre-teen girls' teams.In the adjacent gym of Lightning-Fast, speed-training consultants to professional and amateur teams alike, a petite master-trainer named Shannon Grady, who is also a professional runner, is closing the pro shop when a woman walks in with her daughter, asking to sign her up for the next Speed Clinic.The girl is ten.I ask Shannon how young she's gotten them.Eight.Blame Title IX if you wish.NEWSWEEK did, but for other reasons, its venerable George Will echoing a lament that the initiative was a "train wreck" which had shoe-horned female athletes into college sports at the expense of established men's programs.Boo-hoo! The Women's World Cup 1999 triumph would have happened without Title IX, the threnody went on, because application of the 1972 legislation wasn't codified and enforced for well over a decade, by which time women's sports had already blossomed on their own.NEWSWEEK subsequently balanced their spin on Title IX, putting a dumbbell-curling Michelle Kwan on the cover, and in their "Gamma Girls" cover-story, correctly crediting Title IX for facilitating the emergence of well- adjusted teen girls who weren't back-stabbing clique-queens or basket-cases.Go ahead, blame Title IX for the legions of Type A parents eyeing sports-scholarship dollars.But if you look a little deeper you'll realize that this is a small price to pay for the bounties of the girls' soccer-mania unfolding around us.Like many of us of above a certain age, I can recall when soccer was an autumn boys' sport, grudgingly included as a sidelight to football in private schools.You didn't see "pick-up" soccer games they way you do with basketball or football.And girls played field hockey.As the growth of soccer in this country parallels the growth in women's sports altogether, it seems as though a junction was unavoidable. no other sport offers all girls the same wide-open opportunities and possibilities.ALYSSA- my niece, was far less outgoing than her twin older sisters.Small, but solid, she had no team-sport experience at age 10 when I enrolled her in Lionville Youth League soccer in an attempt to open her up.As she'd signed up late, her first time on the field they put her into a game.She didn't know anything about positions and rules ("What position are you playing?" I asked, just before she went in."I'm a captain." she said), but made up for it with such agility and aggressiveness the coach was near tears when I moved her on to a traveling team a year later.She needn't be big.Or tall.Or strong.She needn't possess the natural gifts which separate the Mary Lou Rettons and Michelle Kwans from their peers early on.There are no expensive lessons, equipment, clothes or facilities.Give her a few yards of space and a ball, and she can stay busy for hours.It's democratic, equal-opportunity as can be.Her sport's not a "girls' sport" or some other segregated subset, but a universal game, the biggest in the world.And now, like generations of boys before her, she has idols of her own.Some, like Mia Hamm and Brandi Chastain, are icons, household names, drawing crowds wherever they go.Some, like Philadelphia's own Heather Mitts and Lorrie Fair (both of whom are models), are gorgeous enough to be sex symbols.And tough? Oh yes, feminine, but at the same time, tough.Best of all, tough.FELICIA- another tiny, shy girl, younger and far less physically-aggressive than Alyssa, this dark-eyed beauty had a tendency to shrink from soccer's inevitable collisions.But she's on the Phoenixville United team, coached by Stassi Theodoropoulos, himself something of a local legend in youth soccer training.A former professional club player in Europe, Stassi, 54, lives the sport and has an excess of excited energy which he spends in drilling several teams, including the girls' varsity at the Villa Maria Academy.His work with the Phoenixville United grew them into a machine which thrashed most of their opponents, including some older girls' teams.And Felicia? She's grown too, her timidity a distant memory as she now tears into any opponent who comes her way.There are the school teams.There are local clubs like the Lionville Youth Association and Phoenixville Area Soccer Club.There are bigger organizations like the Intercounty Soccer League and Philadelphia Area Girls' Soccer (PAGS), which provide a framework for much of the league play throughout the region.All of this adds up to an impressive tapestry growing thicker by the week, and you don't need to look very hard to see its evidence.New playing fields are popping up everywhere, and on any given weekend or evening you'll likely to drive past a girls' match.Charlestown Park, Phoenixville, October..Now with autumn, the fields get little rest.Be it Saturday or Sunday, before one game finishes, other teams arrive and are warming up at the sidelines.It's the same way down the road at Lionville Youth Association.Not to mention at the schools.It's the same way everywhere.And once the girls reach their teens many of them are playing for both their schools and their league teams.Even Stassi, with all his energy, can't match that.With the main season in full swing, he's had to hand off his beloved United team while he tends full-time to the Villa Maria girls.But they're in good hands he assures me, and he'll be keeping an eye on them all.In an editorial I wrote for Women's Physique World in 1999, I called our Women's World Cup victory the finest day in women's bodybuilding. "What else can you call it when the predominant image across America is an ecstatic young woman ripping off her shirt and flexing triumphantly before the entire world, and no one questions it?" A new paradigm of physical acceptability had been launched with these new heroines, I said, "and that's significant to us because their prominence is forever tied to straining sweaty muddy-specked quadriceps, bone-crunching collision and all-out exertion.It's raw muscle, shown in function.And thus needs no excuses.Lady-like? Ha! You tell Mia she's not ladylike!".Charlestown Park, Phoenixville, early April..April? That's right, it's early April.A raw, rainy Saturday afternoon, but Stassi's United girls are loving it.The rain and the mud are part of the fun.They've just shut out the other team four-zip, and despite the rain they happily kneel on a blanket, clowning for some post-game photos.It's those other people huddling in the rain who don't seem to be enjoying it.But that's ok.They're just grown-ups.What do they know about fun?It can only get better.Our local heroines, the Philadelphia Charge, completed another stunning season last year where they lead the league until the final week.We head into this year's Women's World Cup with tens of thousands more devotees than were on-hand for the last, many destined for those same fields.They'll be ramping up the volume on a new generation of superstars who ratchet the standards of physical possibility even higher.The young league-team girl amidst this growing swarm enjoys a freedom her mother only dreamed of, a future unfettered by antiquated notions of physical correctness, sports-conditioning and the limits of femininity.From the mud and dust of her local sward, through the scrapes and bruises of countless collisions, she can see.And she can soar.
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You can actually become more fit both physically and mentally as you grow older. Join Dr. Henry Lodge as he dispels the myths of American aging and explains the new science of aging. Learn how to take charge of your biology to become functionally younger-more vibrant purposeful and dynamic-for years to come.
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I had already read the book (2 versions actually) and wanted the DVD specifically to share with a friend who probably wouldn't read the book, plus as a quick reminder of the many important items of health. The things the books and DVD about healthy aging and just plain healthy living are no-nonsense, easy-to-understand facts. It's a good book to keep around and refer to at least once a year.
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Finding top of the line summer plus size clothing can be difficult but believe me it is not impossible! Women of all shapes and sizes can look fabulous this summer while feeling comfortable at the same time and I can help! If you are not a fashion savvy person already than you may not be up to date on the latest trends that can accentuate your curves and make you look fabulous no matter where you're going.Lucky for you I am as current as you can be in the fashion industry and ready to help you learn the fashion tips necessary to choose plus size clothing that is summer ready.Elan International clothing has a great line of plus size clothing that have incredible style and color options that you would never have seen on a plus size rack years ago.In the past plus size clothing consisted of nothing but dark colors and shapeless styles, lucky for you the fashion industry have come a long way! The main problem you will find with summer and spring clothing is that color is always your most common option and some colors may not be flattering to your figure.Did you know that lighter colors, such as pastels can actually create shadows on your figure that make you look larger than you are? This is a fashion tid bit that you want to be aware of so you don't make this mistake with your personal style.In terms of color for plus size clothing options the bolder the better! As stated above, you will want to stay away from lighter colors but there is really nothing wrong with bright and bold colors.No one wants to wear dark colors during the warmest months of the year and you certainly shouldn't have to.Next on the list of plus size clothing for women tips is to avoid loose fitting clothing.It is a natural instinct to gravitate towards looser fitting clothing because you think it is hiding your imperfections, this is a major misconception.Loose and baggy fitting clothing can actually make you look larger than you are.Instead, you want to find clothing that fit you, not too snug, but fit you perfectly.Too tight is not an option either you want to find the happy medium between the two.A great fitting fashion top and casual pant can make you not only look thinner but younger as well.Women's casual wear fashion is not all about baggy ensembles meant to hide your body; this is a thing of the past.If you are not sure where to begin your new shopping spree, consider Elan clothing.You can find this new designer online and you will not be disappointed in the quality or style of their clothing.Within this designer you can also find Elan dresses and Elan casual dresses for those days by the beach! Don't be discouraged by fashion because you have a larger figure, learn how to utilize fashion to perfect your figure!
Gone are the days when dating was for the young and restless.Dating is now acceptable at all (adult) ages including senior citizens.The over forty dating pool continues to grow.Indeed, with careers taking precedence in many peoples' lives, and baby boomers now past their forties, there are more older singles than ever before.Add to this, marriages that have ended in divorce, death and even drama.If you find yourself over forty and seeking a date.Well, you're in good company.Being in good company is a good thing; it means there are many people out just like yourself.You can choose to dive in and date within your age group or if you like them younger.Well, it's a free world as long as you stay within the confines of the laws of the land.First in the order of things as far as over forty dating advice goes; be yourself and act your age.We all would love to live in perpetual youth, and we may feel young at heart or even body.But the fact is, we are all aging.Yes, we can look back with nostalgia at days gone by, which is okay.But we must also come to terms with the not-so-sweet fact that we are no longer "spring chicken".Ask any young girl or boy who loves to date older men or women.(And yes, there are such boys and girls).They will tell you that they prefer to older men or women who act their age.It is the maturity that attracts them, though the wallet has some magic too.Yet it is amazing how many over forty men and women try to look and act like they are still twenty-something.An obviously older man in a nightclub, wearing a baseball hat backward or sideways and trying to do the latest jig is just not cool.Depending on how you look at it, it is either funny (and not in a good way) or annoying.Not only that but, it is better when a young person is knowingly dating an older person.Then no one is fooling the other, and the younger person is less likely to dive under the table at the club when she/he spots someone she/he knows.Many older singles find themselves back in the dating world, often after a long and steady relationship.Finding yourself suddenly single, whether through divorce or death of a spouse, can be intimidating.Dating can actually feel awkward at first.Assuming that the grieving period is over, and you are psychologically and physiologically prepared to date again, you should not be afraid to date.You may not be spring chicken, but dating is fun at any age.Go out and meet people.Have fun.On the other hand, never try to date when not prepared.This is over forty dating advice that you ought to listen to.Dating while not prepared (especially emotionally) could potentially hurt you as well as your new partner.When it comes to over forty dating, there is one place that beats all for finding partners.That place is the Internet.There are specialty dating sites for virtually all interests and age groups.Two main categories exist in over forty dating, those seeking partners their own age and those seeking younger partners.Both categories are well represented online.If you're cougar or sugar daddy (if you will excuse the labels), there are dating services for you.If you want to meet other over forty singles or even seniors, there are dating services for you too.
Valentine's Day may have been gone too soon, but there's still next year.And the year after.And the next.Pink mouse mats as gifts, souvenirs, or giveaways will never go out of style.There is also a big number of women and girl consumers who would be delighted to receive these in a pretty pink hue.Moreover, breast cancer awareness and advocacy uses this same calming colour.Hence, to commemorate this significant global event, the National Breast Cancer Month, which is held in October of each year, the pink ones fit the bill perfectly.They will make great freebies and merchandise leading up to the month of October and thereafter.Of course, there are hundreds and hundreds of people, most especially girls who just love the pink colour.Selling or giving just about anything in pink colour will surely find their way to the hands of avid fans.There will be supporters and lovers for pink items regardless of demographics.Make them as stylish and unique as pink mouse mats and you have bagged the pink lovers' hearts.This makes it a wise choice for selling products if you are in the computer or IT business.If not, there's always room for selling special items such as these ones, isn't there? Alternatively, you can make room for pink items as additional merchandise or freebies on special occasions and holidays, particularly on Valentine's Day, Mother's Day, International Women's Day, National Breast Cancer Month, Christmas, and year-end sale, if you have one.Pink mouse mats are not merely splashed in this colour alone.The selection ranges from different shades of pink to various designs and artwork.There are some of them which are perfect for younger girls, young adults, and the older bunch.After all, pink is not exclusively for the young group.It is a universally liked colour and one of the easiest colours to associate with women.There are so many choices to select from.Online stores alone have such a diverse assortment that finding the perfect mouse mat can be a challenge too.Even the price rates are of varying degree from the more expensive ones to the very affordable mouse pads.Pink mouse mats are accessible items to have, especially useful if you are cramming for time to find a nice present.These are also great items to add to a pink collection.A mouse pad is not just different and unexpected, but also very useful for work and study, and just about anything one needs a computer for.On a business note, get your business its much deserved attention with the pink types.Formal company events like seminars, conferences, and trade shows do not limit use of company items to formal colours of black, navy blue, grey, and brown.The more creative, the better! Of course, you can go pink! In fact, using a bright colour such as this feminine hue will surely give your business a boost for name recall and visibility.The right colours do matter in getting your name out there in the market.Which do you think people will remember more? Mouse mats in black or in pink?If you want to make a big splash for your name, get potential clients or customers to notice you.Be different.Pink mouse mats can do this for you.
By now you have heard all of the talk about young single women dating older men.There are men that claim it works and men that claim you should "get real" and only date women your own age.Isn't it about time we stopped asking men what they think and focus on the women? Women who date older men are the subject of this discussion.First, it's important to realize that the older man and younger women relationship is not totally unnatural.The fact of the matter is that older men enjoy the company of young women because younger women tend to be fun, uninhibited, adventurous and a great student for the teacher.Young women also get something out of the relationship, though looks are usually not a priority.Instead, younger single women dating older men benefit from the man's sexy personality; his wit, his intelligence, his maturity and class.Contrary to what some believe, it's not always about the "father complex" with single women dating older men.Some relationships are simply made complete by the dynamic of an experienced gentleman and a vivacious youngster ready to experience all that life has to offer.It's the classic teacher-student dynamic and it can work.Some women have always found older men more attractive, even to the point that they have had crushes on movie stars since a young age.What attracts younger women to mature men is that they have confidence in who they are, they are secure in their knowledge and are usually more in tune with their emotions.Ultimately, they seem to understand women more.Not all younger women are gold diggers and have father issues.It is perfectly plausible for a woman of 25 to be completely in love with a 40-year-old man, and be with him for that reason and not for his money or what he can provide for her or because he is connected.Consider women dating older men in Hollywood, though show business is by no means a normal depiction of society.Catherine Zeta Jones pulled no punches in describing the attraction."I know that young men are more unbiased, playful and firmer.There's no question about that, but they are also more selfish and narcissistic.This is why they never had a chance to go out with me.".There is lot to be said for a man who is mature and has experience in life.You have the advantage!
It is surprising the number of people who are unaware of their own bodies.It's one thing to look at yourself in the mirror and critique your good looks but it is something else to start prodding for lumps and bumps.Many people do not self-test or are even aware of the need to self-test for breast cancer.According to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) 2006 statistics 191,410 women were diagnosed with cancer of which 40,820 women died, that is almost 20 percent.How low would that number have been with early detection?Estimated new cases in 2010 of breast cancer for women are 207,090 with 39,840 estimated deaths and 1,970 estimated new cases in men with 390 estimated deaths this year.One in five people diagnosed do not survive.Risk factors.The two greatest risk factors for developing breast cancer are gender and age.Women are at greater risk than men are with the greatest risk in women 40 years and older.That does not exclude younger women or men.Everyone should be aware and self-examining their bodies regularly.Every year, October is "Breast Cancer Awareness" month.More and more organizations and even small businesses are campaigning to make everyone aware of this killer disease.The Arizona cardinals All-Pro wide receiver Larry Fitzgerald is donating money for every catch and touchdown he makes during cancer awareness month as part of the NFL's "A Crucial Catch" campaign.Two-time breast cancer survivor Mary Pat Boyd, CEO of Boyd Silver Works, said, "a portion of every sale from our cancer awareness sterling silver jewelry is donated to cancer research.Asked recently about her jewelry, Boyd explained, "More people than ever buy individually designed cancer awareness jewelry, for themselves, for those suffering breast cancer and for friends and family members who are helping support the cause".Everyone is making an effort to promote cancer awareness.Many are wearing pink to work (pink is the designated cancer awareness color) others are participating in fun runs or other locally organized events.Are you participating?Wherever you are, there is a Breast Cancer Awareness event designed to provide information about cancer explaining how to test for signs of cancer and what to do should you have doubts or questions.The first step is to be aware the disease exists, the next step is to self-examine and the third is to set an appointment for a mammography.You have completed the first step by reading this Awareness article.The next step is learning how to self-examine for breast cancer.
For some reason, most men grow up believing in a lot of "myths" about dating that really tends to hold them back from having the kind of success with women that they could and should have.There are many reasons for this, one of which is the grip that pop media culture seems to have on us.Another reason is the weird way in which guys will listen to other guys who really don't know much about what they are talking about, and that usually leads them down the wrong path.Locker room chatter can cause guys to believe that they have no chance at all with women, when the reality is something very different.Believing in these myths about dating keeps guys from even trying to make any kind of improvement in their dating or social life, and that is a shame.It's a shame because then they do not get to experience life to the fullest, and they are holding themselves back because of false beliefs more than anything else.Here are 3 myths about dating that I want to bust open right now..Dating Myth Number One - Women only want the guys with the huge muscles.This one is really funny to me, and I know lots of guys that truly believe this.Take a look at your average advertisement targeted to women that uses a male model.Pick up a woman's magazine and have a look at what you will see.The guy will be fit for sure, but he won't be the kind of 230 pound gym freak that guys think that women like.Why is this valid? Because advertisers test and test what women respond to and give them what they want.If women really wanted the huge muscular guys and that was what they responded to.That would be what you would see in the ads.You don't.You see lean, muscular guys more than anything else.And just about any guy can attain that physique if they want.Dating Myth Number Two - Women want guys that have the best cars.This is more true if you want to impress other guys than it is if you want to impress women.When I was a little younger, all my friends had much better cars than I did.I mean, much better.Mustangs, Camaros, brand new Acuras.I had a 15 year old Volvo.And I did much better with women than they did.Like a LOT better.It wasn't the car at all.It was the guy in the car.It was always funny to see my buds with the $ 25,000 car drive home by themselves and me and my $ 1000 hooptie ride home with a couple of women in it along with me of course.Don't think that you have to possess a certain car to do well with women.It's not the car, it's the guy IN the car that matters most.Dating Myth Number Three - Only losers go on online dating sites.Luckily, this is one myth that is slowly starting to crack open.For most guys, the only places that they try and meet women are the usual bars and clubs.Well, do you think a lot of attractive, college educated professional women go out to get bombed on the weekend? Some do, most do not.So, where do THEY go? Many times, they try out the online dating scene.If you want to attract a good looking woman with a full time job, her own life, and a woman who can handle her responsibilities, online dating can be GREAT.
It's 6 P.M.Where's my wife? .I find here curled up in our bed, her eyes transfixed on a stranger who is also in MY bed.Emotions are running high.She's laughing - no, she's crying.Either way, I can tell she's in love.She says it is for good reasons, and that I would not understand.Well, I don't know if I can stand for it.What's stranger than fiction? The stranger is a piece of glass.Imagine what she would do if I told HER I was in love with a piece of glass.Yes, my wife is having an affair to remember, with an iPad.We are not great with technology, we don't love technology.We don't run to it, but we don't run from it, either.We are 57 years old.When the iPad came out, we thought it would flop.It seemed like a laptop that was missing some major items, like a keyboard.Truth be told, it is much like that.However, what makes it NOT a laptop, has given my wife a lot more than a new piece of tech.My wife is having an affair to remember.ROM COMS?Romantic comedies stream like fresh cream cascading over warm Huckleberry pie.If you're not subscribed to Net Flicks, you'll want it, if you get or have an iPad.At night, we often have a 3 way (the two of us and the iPad).We connect it to our projector with a special cable she got on amazon.The iPad becomes larger than life as the movie plays high on our wall.Check email?Yes, of course.At it's core (and I mean the processor, literally) the iPad ll is an iPhone 4.Email is easy to check and the virtual on-screen keyboard works better than you'd think it would.Bank Accounts? Play games? Listen to books? Search real estate? Write real estate offers? .Yes! Clients can sign contracts with their finger or a stylus.Younger clients see a 57-year-old who's up to speed with tech.Check list is the name of an app at the app store.It works great and replaces scraps of paper.What about the battery?The battery lasts for about 10 hours, depending on the activity.Does it break?It can break.Like the iPhone and iPod before it, the face is all glass.When it shatters, it must be replaced.Get the warranty and make sure broken glass is covered.If not, there are independent repair places which can fix it for around $140.The best insurance is a good carrying case.The bottom line?I have NEVER seen my wife be so in love with anything that wasn't breathing! Yes, this "laptop with things missing," is slick.It is thin, handsome and fills a tall order for my wife, who has her standards (poodles that is).The iPad slips into her purse, lounges next to her in the car.I can see it now. "But officer, he was just going to kiss her.".What do we have for you?
Where is that lace shirt you had years ago?A lace shirt or blouse could be the #1 New Fashion Item in your closet.Here's the reason to wear a lace shirt.Even year around..Wearing lace next to your face is like a DETOUR FOR THE EYE!The pattern and texture of lace fabric softens facial imperfections and neck wrinkles by misleading the eye to focus on the color of your lips, beautiful hair and makes your eyes look even more intense and bright.WOW!How A Modern Woman Wears Lace..* Do you have a velour hooded jacket and matching pants? You know, these are the soft, casual clothes that copied our old sweats.(They're made of velour instead of sweatshirt fabric.) Accent your velour outfit with a lace shirt and not only look a little younger, but also feel so fashionable and chic!Are you looking for a daytime into evening outfit that's not too casual or too dressy? For a trip to the coffee shop or meeting someone for an early evening glass of wine, imagine wearing a black velour jacket with hood and pants, with pretty ballerina flats and your beautiful face - the lace really kicks it up a notch!* A lace shirt looks edgy and fashionable when worn with our old staple. DENIM! Wear with denim jeans or denim jacket.Pair with a rustic, brown belt or black belt.Choose a belt with a large, metal buckle, or a rope belt, casually tied at the side.This really cuts the 'dressy look' of lace and the casual look of denim.Making a contemporary fashion statement.* Now, look at all the jackets you have hanging in your closet? Wear your shirt with a plaid jacket, tweed, khaki, denim, silk and the new subtle, shiny fabric jackets with a sporty cut.Lace is no longer considered for 'dress' only.Try mixing up your separates and wear lace as the catalyst between dress and casual.This is truly the look of a modern woman.And since lace fabric is very good to camouflage facial imperfections and neck wrinkles.No Woman Over 50 should be without a lace shirt!IMAGINE. in spring and summer, wearing your lace shirt with khakis, a beautiful belt, clog shoes and carrying a big tote! You'll look and feel great wearing lace for a contemporary year around look.And SURPRISE! You get the bonus of camouflaging wrinkles, feeling confident and chic.And looking great!Can't get any better than that!
