GRAY IN L.A.

Is this ME? Nope, I hate orange! "It's almost summer, I think it's time for the Torture-Chamber !" said my friend Gracie who is in her very late sixties (like me) in her most somber tone. Of course, she meant the dressing rooms in any store or boutique that carry bathing suits . We both kind of need a new one but with the worldwide fashion conspiracy against older women and their naked skin, we've been putting it off for years and swam in some plain old leotard without insane accoutrements   - for good reasons. For one thing, modern "old-ladies" swimsuits are breathtakingly ugly and unsexy. (I have written about that sad topic of fashion-neglect for seniors many times http://betterafter50.com/2017/02/hey-fashion-designers-give-us-some-clothes/ ).  Maybe the Army Look? Noooo, I'm not patriotic! They come with ruffles, trimmings, little skirts and "tummy-control", industrial underwire and D-cups. I'd rather swim in ...

Photo: Eva Napp Don't you just love it when people, friend or foe, are doing or saying something - and hastily add to it a ,   "Don't take that personally!"   I think I want to start a new Blog where I really really want to be totally controversial, confrontational, blunt, direct, "aggressive", attacking, frank, fresh, feisty, free, funny (oh, it's the "F" words again) - IN SHORT: Un-American! And I want to punch a hole in all the daily pretense and charades and empty phrases, failing to address REAL issues that burn up my energy. It might be the Trump-Blues, or it's just that Life's dark shadows are following me around, whispering questions into my ear, but I'm losing patience with a lot of things. Here's a phrase I keep hearing a lot lately from people I know well, even very close friends. I have two who are very busy, like we all are. I haven't seen either of them in many months. I know that's supposed...

Sitting in My California Garden https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cp9OY6UoqvA&t=26s I understand that  L.A. Women  are a special breed, not just Jim Morrison of the DOORS raved about them in an iconic Song, no, because I turned into one  MYSELF .  A little bit against my will. You see, German or not, I once was a dyed-in-the-wool  New Yorker , a gritty, pretty, unique,  mind blowing  City if there ever was one.  Me & the City , we were an Item, in love, practically married, yet also having a tempestuous,  passionate  Affair at the same time. Well, in any event, I'm  not by Birth  or upbringing an L.A Woman, just in  Spirit . And that was and is enough for me - and apparently for the Koreans. So they  picked me  to complain to the Korean women and men from my classic  age-group , which is, of course the BB (NOT Brigitte Bardot!) the  BABY BOOMERS,  about the Lack ...