The Middle Ages: < Mid-50s
“In order to protect you from a more complicated reality, I want to pretend that droopy-fleshed women in deep middle age are lusted after by droves of men for their original and seasoned beauty.”—Deep middle […]
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The Middle Ages: <47
Winner of the creepiest opening paragraph so far in 2011: "The first time they had sex, during that initial exploration of unfamiliar flesh, John Ross uttered words to Ann Maloney that would sound to her […]
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Forty years ago on this date, Henry Thomas was born in San Antonio, Texas. I wonder if he feels middle-aged? Cake photo: Between the Pages
The Middle Ages: 58
For women who like a nice glass of wine at the end of the day, there’s more good news: Even middle-aged women can have about a drink a day of any kind of alcoholic beverage […]
The Middle Ages: 41
"I wish I could transmute my middle-aged gay pain into some teen vampire drama." –Mike Albo, author of pseudo-memoir, Kindle single, The Junket, as well as Details article, "Stop Lying About Your Age." Age roughly determined […]
The Middle Ages: 40
The Bell Jar at 40: Sylvia Plath's YA novel reaches middle age. Despite being as angsty as any teen, I never read The Bell Jar. Perhaps I should read it before next July 25th. I […]
The Middle Ages: Not 41
To the two people in two days (yes, two—one from San Francisco and another from Taunton, which is apparently somewhere in the UK) who got here searching is 41 middle aged no it’s not. Seriously, […]
The Middle Ages: 41
"A 41-year-old man still thinks of himself as young, but honestly, as somebody near enough that age, I can tell you it isn't. In true math terms, and according to the average life expectancy of […]
The Middle Ages: 40-59
between 1988 and 2008, the fraction of middle-aged men and women ages forty to fifty-nine receiving SSDI benefits rose by 45 percent among males (from 3.9 to 5.6 percent) and 159 percent among females (1.9 […]
The Middle Ages: 40
Conversations between middle-aged people and teenagers tend to be a little awkward, probably because we have so much in common. and again I just had dinner with a bunch of middle-aged men who spent a […]