September 5, 2008
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Susan Reimer: Writing dovetails with life's phases
I was a sportswriter when my bosses asked me if I wanted to be a family-life columnist.
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Susan Reimer: Scolded by all, but not sorry
Staying young, growing old and what happens in between
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Susan Reimer: Looking at living longer with less
Not long ago, I wrote that "near retirees," as we are now known, should consider working past the ages of 62 or 65 for all sorts of economic reasons, and we should salve our disappointment by doing some of the things now that we thought we would do in retirement - golfing in Florida or traveling in Europe.
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Susan Reimer: Coming soon, to a wedding near you
Connie and Nancy, my best friends since the seventh grade."
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Susan Reimer: At least the will won't be an issue
Staying young, growing old and what happens in between
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Susan Reimer: Limits lower for today's grads
Staying young, growing old and what happens in between
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Susan Reimer: Ages loom large in election
Staying young, growing old and what happens in between
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Susan Reimer: Aging has perks in tight times
Sometime during my growing up, my mother lopped 10 years off her age and started making the occasional cradle-robbing jokes about my father.
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Susan Reimer: Parents almost can see finish line
My daughter graduates from college this weekend and, God willing, she will soon be on someone else's payroll.
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Susan Reimer: Days of cursive might be history
I can tell which of my three sisters has sent me a card by the handwriting on the front of the envelope.
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Susan Reimer: Debunking negative ideas about the next crop of workers
My generation of parents considers this job to be open-ended, and the gainful employment of our children is no longer the finish line.
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Susan Reimer: Putting a good face on aging
The Los Angeles Times reports that, after years of steady growth -- especially among the middle classes, the cosmetic surgery industry is suffering nips and tucks because of the shaky economy.
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Susan Reimer: Poet plucks at petals of her life
In the opening pages of her memoir, The Florist's Daughter, Patricia Hampl sits determinedly by a hospital bed, holding her mother's unconscious hand while writing the obituary of this difficult woman with her other hand.
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Susan Reimer: Earnings escalator grinds to a halt
Jessie, my college-aged daughter, once declared herself to be "unemployable."
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Susan Reimer: Lessening fatigue of cancer survivors
The terrifying discovery of the lump in their breasts. The surgery, the chemo, the radiation. All of that was behind them, maybe six months behind them, maybe five years behind them. But behind them.
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Susan Reimer: Fla. sun casts long shadow on future
Iraised my hand once too often at a charity auction and was the winning bidder on a week in Naples, Fla., at the gorgeous home of a generous donor, located inside a gated community and right on a golf course.
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Susan Reimer: Study fails to credit women
Research reported in The Archives of Internal Medicine and The New York Times suggests that men can survive to "extreme old age" -- which, for the sake of argument, is considered 90 -- if they don't smoke, manage their weight, control their blood pressure, get regular exercise and avoid diabetes.
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Susan Reimer: Don't let date nights become predictable
Being a family-life columnist has its perks.
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Susan Reimer: It's neat to see kids' own habitats
Parents Weekend is that long-standing college ritual in which parents, who dropped their freshmen off just weeks earlier, get to return to campus and see the kids in their new habitat and assure themselves that they are just fine.
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Susan Reimer: Sisters bonding over kids' weddings
Four sisters born within five years. Eleven children born to them within 10 years.
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Susan Reimer: When a wife had to be well-dressed arm candy
I've always felt that I was born in the wrong era.
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Susan Reimer: Couple likes Baltimore enough to move here
Debra Thomas and her husband, Terry Shepard, found Baltimore in the answers they gave to one of those preferences quizzes you might get from an online dating service.
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Susan Reimer: Students traveling, but so are parents
My friend Betsy called me from in front of her stove, where she has been cooking for her four children for too many years to count.
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Susan Reimer: We got the one tear, and that is enough
For the first time in the history of crying, it actually helped a woman in the workplace.
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Susan Reimer: Average age of gardeners on the Web is increasing
This is gardening's hot-stove season, when, just as in baseball, planning and daydreaming replace the action in the field.
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Susan Reimer: The phases of her life can be spelled out in cars
"But mom, that van defines you," my daughter, Jessie, said during the family's latest round of musical cars.
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Susan Reimer: Women's sacrifices, taken to the extreme
Christopher Buckley's dark satire Boomsday imagines a Social Security crisis that pits the generations against each other, and a public relations campaign to persuade older Americans to do the "right" thing and check out early. There are even financial incentives and free Botox if you schedule your suicide.
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Susan Reimer: Tenacious as ivy, socialite-gardener remade her life
In 1924, at the age of 51 and with her marriage crumbling and money nearly gone, Norah Lindsay, a beautiful English socialite of the second tier, began a career as a garden designer, working for the aristocrats who were her friends.
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Susan Reimer: Your vision of retirement could be all wrong
Boomers, I think, anticipate their retirement in ways our parents did not.
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Susan Reimer: Entering world of 'managing' injury pain
They say growing old is not for sissies.
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Susan Reimer: When kids visit, frame questions with care
The holidays are upon us and, if we are lucky, our grown-up kids will make it home from college or careers and spend some time with us, the parents who still think if them as children.
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Susan Reimer: Arguing against the rush to retire
Like you, I have been working and raising children for a quarter century and, of late, I have been daydreaming about what it would be like to retire from both jobs and have some fun.
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Susan Reimer: Parents can only light the way for grown children on odyssey
After social scientist William Galston presented his report on what our twentysomething children are up to these days, he was swamped with e-mails, phone calls and dinner-party button-holing by panicked parents.
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Susan Reimer: New 'odyssey' stage disconcerts parents
A social scientist defined it. A respected journalist named it. And parents are buzzing about it.
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Susan Reimer: Humbling to see what history has forgotten
I recently returned from a trip to Italy, where I attended the wedding of the daughter of a dear friend and where I pondered, among other things, the meaning of old.
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