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Don’t Lie About Your Age: A Rant...

Posted by BeckySharper in Thoughts on 09 3rd, 2009 | 34 Comments
Recently I was at a dinner with a bunch of female friends. The five year old daughter of one friend had a birthday coming up, and was extremely excited about it. She kept rolling up on us guests and announcing: “I’m going to be six! How old are you?” We all dutifully reported our ages–which...
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Putting the Sex in Sexagenarian...

Posted by sarah.of.a.lesser.god in Thoughts on 07 16th, 2009 | 8 Comments
Love knows no age. via dark_ghetto28 @ flickr What qualifies as passionate sexual activity? This isn’t a trick question. I’m not getting into a Bill Clinton-esque game of semantics. My inquiry is driven primarily by the most recent installment of the weekly column in The New York Times...
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