A new paper explores what “supercentenarians” have in common. Turns out it’s bad record-keeping. (via Kottke)
Law & Order Creator Dick Wolf Has Donated More Than 200 Artworks to the Met.
The Age Gappers. They say they’re happy. Why is it so hard to believe them? (via Metafilter)
Formerly Popular Names that Died Off, Male Edition. Many faded after they became associated with a famous person, real or fictional. (via Digg)
Only Medicare is Medicare. I got traditional Medicare because it was just easier, and now I'm glad I did.
A particularly scathing obituary. Online obit sites have either pulled it or replaced it with another written by someone else.
30 People Share Their Charming Old Houses.
The Story Behind the Perpetual Stew Club. (via Kottke)
My father was ten years old than my mother when they were married in the late 1940s (and they stayed together until my father's death 45 years later), and I myself was smitten with a woman who was nine years my senior back when I was in my forties, athough nothing ever came of that. Those people who want to try to find something obscene, vulgar, or border-line illegal in a May-December romance can just go and pee up a rope.
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I'm 55, my husband is 71, together for almost 30 years. We've had ups and downs like just about everyone else; the gap has pluses and minuses just like any other difference between us. It's true it's starting to get more challenging but that would have been inevitable regardless.
ReplyDeleteI don't recall any judgment from other people (maybe he has, breaking an 18+ year relationship to be with me). There might be some confusion but our friends have just accepted us the way friends are supposed to.
I'm not getting old, I'm just outliving the warranty. And I still get to do dumb stuff, only slower.
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Happy Friday, gwdMaine!
ReplyDeleteMy wife was born on the day I turned 12.
ReplyDeleteHaving dated a woman 8 years my senior, I'd have to say that Benjamin Franklin has the correct take on the subject.
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