I know it's not youth-culture-worshipping-approved, but I will be the first to tell you that I will be 40 in three years. I am not "perpetually 30," and I'm just fine with getting a little help from Botox along the way.
botox
clothes
The main thing I notice when I look back over the decade I've just graduated from, it's that I didn't know s@#% about styling myself in an attractive way.
aging
I let my 7-year-old choose my hair color. He chose turquoise.
age
Where was I when everybody decided to get their shit together? Probably drinking margaritas at a dog wedding.
language
While it’s cool to know that being bilingual has scads of smarty-pants benefits, the study overlooks many other things that are awesome about knowing more than one language. But don’t worry -- I’m here to help with five more!
fashion blogs
I've fallen headlong into a vortex of fashion blogs written by Canadian women over the age of 40.
aging
Crayola nail polish? I'll pass.
age
I had 20 to myself, twenty years ago. I am content now to celebrate 40 and admire 20 on another generation of women.
youth
I fear a lot of things, but aging has never been one of them, until now.
turning 50
I am sick of being told by men that I'm going to lose my effability now that I've hit 50. I'm taking my f&*%ability back, damnit.
aging
I’m ready for you, 30. Throw all the Merino wool sweaters and New York Times Real Estate sections you want to at me! You’ll never win!
aging
When you get older, a lot of stuff happens to your body. You are disgusting in new and interesting ways, welcome to your great decline.
aging
In a culture so increasingly body- and appearance-obsessed, one should not expect that the women who have spent their lives battling with body image issues would one day wake up cleansed of these worries simply because a certain number of years have passed.
30
This is going to be much less useful than the version Mandy did for her 37th birthday, because as we've firmly established, I really haven't learnt all that much.
aging
"Don’t wait too long,” my friend warned me a few days after my divorce was finalized. “It’s not like you’ll be young and hot for much longer.”
aging
This was the very first post I ever wrote [back on November 4, 2009], so please be kind.
aging
All these years later, I'm still trying things for Jane. This time it was $500 of injections. Can you tell the difference?
aging
The gypsy cab driver (un-pc term, no?) just said to me, "You're 48? God bless…
aging
Or, I'm starting to sound like my mother.
aging
We're getting too old for this @#$%!, Danny Glover.
age
This is where I get cranky and start yelling "Get The Hell Off My Lawn."
aging
Girls as young as nine can receive the HPV vaccine. As much as I don't want to think my daughter will have unprotected sex, it's my job to assume she will.
