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Martha Wilson: I have become my own worst fear
Advances in injectables may help a woman fit into standards of beauty. But just because she’s more sexually attractive doesn’t mean she’s more personally attractive. A Canadian study asked participants to evaluate women who had been treated with Botox and those who were aging naturally.
The (not entirely surprising) results? Women with the ‘Tox were rated as “cold” and “unfeeling” compared to their wrinkly, saggy sisters. The participants felt more warm and fuzzy towards the women with unadulterated faces, believing them to be less vain.
It’s been noted in the past that Botox affects the way emotions are interpreted. But I wonder, too, whether there’s something about visibly aging that we associate with warmth…in the form of motherhood.
One of the great joys of parenting, for me, has been watching my kids play. From infancy right up to today, they give themselves to joy with a simple purity that lights up everything around them. I think I’m learning to be happy by watching them.
I’m heading back towards that childlike happiness as I age science says. The New York Times reports on a study that suggests happiness comes with age. As people get older, they become happier with their own lives, and more cheerful about the state of the world overall.
On the one hand, it makes sense to have kids while you’re still relatively young — in your 20s or 30s — so that you have the energy to keep up with them and take care of their needs better. On the other hand, it’s good to wait so that you’re financially and emotionally stable and so that you can enjoy life without kids for a bit first; it’s difficult to go to grown-up concerts and parties when you have little ones to take care of. Or you could just wait until you retire before having kids.
The last year I went trick or treating, I was in middle school. My best friend and I had decided it was time to be distributing candy, not raking it in, and planned to spend the night manning her front porch. But after about twenty minutes, we found that asking little ghosts and witches what they were for Halloween was just not the same as roaming the crowded streets ourselves, all decked out and high on sugar. Continue reading »
She’s seventy-two, but Jenny Brown says she’s ready to be a mother. No matter how much it costs.
The British woman is about to undergo her seventh course of IVF in attempts to become pregnant at an age four years past the age of the current oldest new mom in the world (who just died at sixty-nine).
And that’s not all, she’s asking women to come forward Continue reading »
When I need a laugh, I can usually depend on Passive Aggressive Notes, and this gem is no different.
A dad replaced the labels on his daughter’s pants with “none of your damn business,” to keep a babysitter from repeating that the tot should be wearing “her age” in clothing. Continue reading »
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