Tag: growing old gracefully

Weaving spiders, come not here. Hence, you long legged spinners, hence!

September 13, 2019 by Vickie Lester

Unlike Titania I have no fairies to sing me to sleep or to enact vermin control by incantation. If you’re wondering what daft line of thought I’m following I will let Mr. Shakespeare explain: A Midsummer Night’s Dream SCENE II. Another part of the wood. Enter Titania, Queen of Fairies, with her train. TITANIA Come, now a roundel and a fairy song; Then, for the third part of a minute, hence— Some to kill cankers in the muskrose buds, Some […]

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I went grey at 34 – and you?

July 17, 2014 by Vickie Lester

That’s me last week, considering the posts of yesterday it’s pretty evident my hairstyle is deeply influenced by my natal decade… Although, I’ve never gotten the eyeliner thing down. Mr. L and I have discussed going short and silver (children avert your eyes) and the very notion has been dubbed an… nope, I can’t bring myself to type that… okay, the meaning of what he said was that it would be an impediment to connubial bliss… So, there you have […]

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Kim Novak, Liza Minnelli, and June Squibb at the Oscars: How Hollywood treats aging actresses.

March 6, 2014 by Vickie Lester

Look, babies. Nothing to be frightened of. This is how we grow old gracefully. I give you Gladys Cooper. From bombshell of the teens to Henry Higgins’s mother in “My Fair Lady” (with one short stop in middle-age in between). The whole furor over various older actress at the Academy Awards has got me steamed. This Slate article is an excellent commentary. And I might add (thank you, Amanda Hess) that the pressures to appear young (I think “taut” is […]

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Tag: growing old gracefully

Weaving spiders, come not here. Hence, you long legged spinners, hence!

Kim Novak, Liza Minnelli, and June Squibb at the Oscars: How Hollywood treats aging actresses.