GRAY IN L.A.

Back in Black OK, so the GOLDEN GLOBES came and went and it was a rather special and positive spectacle! The idea behind it was to "protest" the pigs of patriarchy, always a good idea in my book, and to show solidarity with the recent #MeToo and #Time'sUp" movements. The female members of the movie industry had announced to wear black - which most actually did - and they looked better than ever! It should from now on be the rule! I wear black all the time by the way - actually since I was a teenager - when I drove my Mom crazy with my black-clothes-antics. So, to me it was just another day in black.   Generally speaking, awards are an excellent place to show where you stand politically and humanly - and yes, even fashionably. But to think that there is any significance in wearing a certain color to an event where only the movie elite is part of - is a bit naive. It has been done at the "Oscars", and that Jane Fonda, who I lov...

  Santa greeting me at UNION STATION I will be alone for Christmas (and hopefully New Years Eve, too). "Oh, you poor lonely creature", some might think. And I did feel a tinge of sadness, too. But, "lucky you!" yelled a younger friend, a mother of several younger kids, a huge family and a husband - and I quickly saw it her way. Totally.  She's been running around in a frenzy for weeks, and her eyes glittered with sheer envy when I told her that I will be reading, writing, eating delicious foods, drinking champagne and thinking about the state of the world. (Which is dire and I won't have enough champagne to drink it away.) In short: I'm making Christmas totally mine, shape it, bend it, give it new meaning all to my taste! Well, if that isn't classic feminist living , freeing yourself from the role of an overworked family-servant - then I don't know what is. Why am I alone? Does it say something about me or the times? Sure. I'm...

The Future is Female - Really? At the Women's March in Los Angeles 2017 There it was again, one of those earth-shaking not exactly new or surprising articles online. The AgeLab informed and promised older women like myself that the future will be female. Just like that. Yeah, no kidding? I'm listening. I'm waiting! Joseph F. Coughlin, director of the  AgeLab   at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology even wrote a new book, “The Longevity Economy: Unlocking the World’s Fastest-Growing, Most Misunderstood Market.” He claims that older women are changing the workplace, mostly because they don't want to retire (sure, they've been taking care of everything for so long that it would feel "unnatural" to lazily lean back). They also live longer, are very experienced and finally more self-assured and ready for another round of real life. Oh, and they get a lot of divorces after 50, so no one is bothering them with menwhining (my kne...