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An Interview with Jack Kerouac’s Biographer
Joyce Glassman Johnson, a distinguished author, was a young aspiring novelist in 1957 when she met Jack Kerouac through a Barnard classmate, Elise Cowan, an aspiring poet. Elise was in love with the beat poet Allen Ginsberg, who knew that Kerouac,... Read more >
Robert Redford: Up Close and Personal
When I interviewed Redford in 1984 for his role in The Natural, he was defensive about his image as a matinee idol and hesitant to talk with reporters because, he told me, “if you talk about an issue, what comes back is a description of what... Read more >
Old Glory: Wearing Our Age Proudly
“Want to look current, hip, with it …YOUNG?” The question comes my way from magazines, websites and TV and maybe that’s all I need to tell you. Of course I’m supposed to scream, “Yes!” Then read about how to do it. And buy stuff from the... Read more >
When It’s Time To Let Go Of Your Adult Child
I made the bed today in my younger daughter Samantha’s old room with a quilt I pieced together by hand. The quilt wasn’t supposed to be here in my apartment, dressing up Sam’s girlhood bed. It was supposed to be with Sam, in her grownup home. But... Read more >
Down the Up Escalator
The disconnect between the stock market’s recent climb and the fact that millions remain unemployed or have lost their homes and savings to the housing bust comes as no surprise to writer Barbara Garson. Her fourth nonfiction book on the human side... Read more >
Ageless Erotica: Pleasures That Never Grow Old
In a recent New Yorker cartoon, a fiftyish woman in a bathrobe looks down on a naked man in bed. “I am proud of my body,” she tells him. “Just not in this light.” He has already brought in two glasses of wine and undressed. Now it’s her turn. What... Read more >
7 Tips For an Elegant, Natural Look
With courtesy from Zest Now: Fifty and Forward Your clothing and accessories will create the bling and elegance. Use your makeup just to add “polish” to your entire look. Your overall makeup should look moist, real, alive and fresh, rather... Read more >
Party Math: How To Be Your Own Caterer
“Help! I don’t want to serve too little but I don’t want to spend too much,” wrote a college chum, Priscilla. Widowed six months earlier, after her husband’s long illness, she’s giving her first party in years—cocktails for 20, old and new friends,... Read more >
Why Women 50+ Are Reading “Fifty Shades of Grey”
With courtesy from Zest Now: Fifty and Forward Fifty Shades of Grey by E.L. James is number one on the New York Times best-seller list—an unusual slot for a pornographic novel. And it has gotten there by word of mouth. Have... Read more >
I Recycled My Husband
  I was Rick’s second wife. We were together for twenty years, married for the last twelve of them. I’m sad our marriage went south, but it deserved to. We had no business tying the knot in the first place.  Rick wasn’t the right... Read more >
Mother-of-the Bride & Groom: What to Wear
My eldest daughter Glenna just called to discuss the latest in her wedding details. She ended our conversation by advising that I start the wedding diet. Three months to go and I’m still figuring out what to wear. Like many first time mothers-... Read more >
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