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By Laura Shovan | April 9, 2008
Toby Devens knows firsthand that being over 50 doesn't make a woman over the hill. The Clarksville resident is a successful author, a widow twice over, and mother to an adult daughter. The characters in Devens' first novel, My Favorite Midlife Crisis (Yet), could be her own circle of friends. They are three women juggling love lives, aging parents, relationships with grown children, and their own careers. Devens said an "ability to find humor, except in the most difficult circumstances, is probably what buoys up most women."
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February 16, 2007
Oyster dinner tomorrow at church The men of Hopkins United Methodist Church are holding the February oyster and chicken dinner from noon to 4 p.m. tomorrow at the church, 13250 Highland Road, Highland. The snow date is Feb. 24. Oyster dinners cost $14; chicken dinners, $10. Both are served with potato salad, string beans and succotash. Desserts will be for sale. Information or to order dinner: 410-531-6187. Coffeehouse concert slated for Feb. 24 The Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Columbia will sponsor a concert by Janelia Soul' Afrique, a world beat fusion group, at 7 p.m. Feb. 24 at Owen Brown Interfaith Center, 7246 Cradlerock Way, Columbia.
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by Josh Fischman | October 27, 2006
Minding your health is not a young man's game. Muscles work smoothly in the teen years, joints flex easily in the 20s. It seems like young men can eat what they want, drink what they desire, and the pounds melt away as quickly as they put them on. They can work 16-hour days, party until 3 a.m., and get up the next day and do it again. (Give or take a few bad hangovers, of course.) Life is a river, flowing to them effortlessly and endlessly. Then sometime in the middle decades -- perhaps as men hit their mid-30s and approach 40, or sometimes 50 -- the river changes.
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By Steve Dollar | January 20, 2005
A symbol of all-American hot-shot virility in adventures such as The Right Stuff and romantic capers such as The Big Easy, Dennis Quaid has always been underappreciated as an actor, as someone with more going on than dimpled cheeks and the lady-killer charm of a big, flashy grin. Of late, he's acquired some true gravitas. He outlasted a much publicized divorce from former wife Meg Ryan in 2001 and bounced right back, delivering meaty portrayals in Oscar-happy projects such as Traffic. His batting average isn't consistent (Flight of the Phoenix, yikes!
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By Joe Christensen | March 16, 2004
WINTER HAVEN, Fla. - Twenty seconds out of the driveway, it hit him - the wind, the chill, the foolishness. Mike Hargrove suddenly realized he was a 54-year-old man riding a Harley-Davidson on a 20-degree day in Cleveland. "Instant ice cream headache," Hargrove said with a laugh last week. "People are looking at me going, `Who is this dumb [guy]?'" Maybe Hargrove was trying to find out himself. In 13 years as a major league manager, he had a reputation for playing things by the book.
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By Greg Kot | October 19, 2001
After Sept. 11, the stakes have been raised for touring rock bands. And U2 - never a band to shy away from a challenge - brings the goods on a tour that stops tonight at the Baltimore Arena. "We feel very blessed to be on a tour at this time in the United States," said singer Bono Monday night at Chicago's United Center. U2's songs have always addressed the big subjects: war and peace, love and betrayal, sin and faith. And those themes resonate more deeply than ever for an audience clearly starved for some sort of spiritual sustenance.
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By PATRICIA MEISOL | August 14, 1999
Her adult friends counseled her against it, calling it shabby and warning that it would make her look cheap. "Why destroy yourself?," they asked. "Why make yourself look like someone you're not?"But Carolyn Turner had younger friends, too, and she found it harder and harder to relate to them. That changed the day last January she went ahead and got her eyebrow pierced, hanging a dime-sized golden ring with a tiny ball in the new hole."It opened up doors," she says. "It was cool."Turner, a Pasadena hairdresser, is 53. Her decision to style herself in what has been mostly a young people's fad shocked her daughter and her friends and affronted her customers, some of them religious.
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By Tim Madigan | May 31, 1998
First, the good news. Men in primitive times probably weren't bothered much with the midlife crisis. As recently as the American Revolution, life expectancy was 35 years, so fellows who went on to hit 40 were probably just glad to be there.But now we live into our 80s, on average, and for men (women too, of course, but that's another story) that longevity comes at a price. Near the end of the fourth decade or so, a painful reality often takes root: We will never play in the major leagues; waistlines bulge to size 38 and bald spots blossom; we, too, will die someday; career success is not all it was cracked up to be. The first half of life has slipped away, and the second half looms as a huge, existential question mark.
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By Dave Barry | February 23, 1997
I got a convertible.Now I know what you're going to say. You're going to say: "Dave, you pathetic fool, you're 49 and you're having a midlife crisis. Trade that thing in immediately and get a car more suitable for a person your age, such as a 1910 Hupmobile with air bags."No, darn it! I love my convertible! I've always wanted a convertible!For 33 years I've been driving boring cars, starting with my mom's Plymouth Valiant, which was a Ferrari compared with my vTC dad's car, a Nash Metropolitan powered by a motor the same size as the one found inside Tickle Me Elmo.
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By Arthur Hirsch | December 20, 1996
This week before Christmas, the American shopping mall seems in the prime of life. Cars crowd parking lots, customers jam food courts and stream through stores deep into late holiday shopping hours. Amid evergreen wreaths and red ribbon, all appears well.But the mall is facing a midlife crisis. Buffeted by competition from discount stores, mail-order catalogs and revitalized downtown shops, its novelty as a leisure destination faded, the shopping mall at 40 years old is struggling to redefine its place in the country's landscape.