Category: Generation Bold Blogs

I was looking for a dish to bring to our Historical Society’s pot luck fund raiser. Don’t get me wrong. I never intended to actually make the dish, just to buy it and include a card with the recipe for effect. I have zero cooking ability. In fact, I...

My name is Adriane, and I am a theater addict. Every morning, I crawl to my computer and log into Unfilled Seats, Gold Club, Club Free Time, Goldstar Events and the Theater Development Fund, among others. I root around with the compulsion of a gambler throwing her last pair of dice. My addiction sometimes, but not...

“You can’t hear.” “What?” He says. “You can’t hear,” I repeat in a louder voice. “Yes, I can,” he says in a tone that indicates he knows that I know that he knows he can’t hear; but, intends to do nothing about it. Thus goes many a conversation between...

I plan to name my robot Jeanne Calment, after the French super-ager who lived to be 122. Jeanne will like to read British mysteries, go to theater and eat cheesecake while standing in front of a refrigerator (the calories are less that way.) In other words, she will be...

Have you seen the Netflix movie The Last Laugh? If not, you should check it out. Yes, I know, Rotten Tomatoes gave it only 57%, and the audience liked it even less. But I assure you, that’s because they didn’t understand what they were watching. As the characters romp through...

This blog is dedicated to my favorite hints and tips that will make you look younger to others and perhaps feel more confident in yourself. But first, I feel you deserve an explanation. I brand myself as the pro-aging advocate, ready to stamp out ageism as a destructive force....

It was a “simple plan.” When my mother passed away, I decided to memorialize her with a bench and plaque donated to the Whittemore preserve in New Jersey. Ten years later, nothing has yet been installed or delivered. Still, I am hopeful of making the Whittemore’s June 1 Community...

It has been six years since I accepted my first senior discount. The young man in the movie theatre ticket booth automatically took $3 off, no questions asked. He just looked at me and assumed that I “deserved” it. It was a startling realization that I had turned the...

Unlike President Clinton, I inhaled. I had to if I wanted to breathe while walking through Washington Square Park in the early ’70s. The air was heavy with the scent and the curling smoke of grass. Oh, excuse me…cannabis. My grass history started when I moved to Greenwich Village...

Despite an unemployment rate that hovers at 4%, ageism in the workplace remains a widespread prejudice that must be faced by any older aged job seeker. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report CDC: Older Employees in the Workplace, discrimination in the workplace starts around age 40.This despite...