You Don't Look 70
Join me as I relive and reconcile the personal experiences and public events of the past 70 years. A new lexicon. Nostalgia for old TV shows and commercials. Evolving technology. How many wonders I've experienced. How many more are yet to be.
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Remembering my seventies (opens the original)
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Our son-in-law Steven just turned fifty. He was celebrated with a 1970s-themed party to which guests were asked to wear outfits that represent the time. Bruce and I initially thought we could dig into our closets or the attic for genuine artifacts we wore in our twenties—a leisure suit, a Qiana shirt, my wedding gown, maternity clothes (I was pregnant twice in those ten years). I found the wedding gown but realized I probably could not get into it, weighing thirty pounds more than when I walked
Observations on observation (opens the original)
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Do you visit a house of worship? Regularly? Or just for holidays and special occasions? Have you noticed a change in attire, let alone attendance? Are the days of houses of worship numbered?I tend to wax introspective at the Jewish New Year. Thanks for reading You Don't Look 70! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.<input class="button primary" type=
The windows on my world (opens the original)
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There have been hundreds of windows in my life, many with associated memories from both sides of the casement. Thanks for reading You Don't Look 70! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.</d
It’s the most wonderful time of the year. Maybe (opens the original)
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I’ve received my first round of back-to-school photos. Three grandsons—one in eighth grade in Kennett Consolidated school district and one in seventh grade and one in fifth in Rose Tree Media schools—posed in front of their incredible shrinking front doors as they have since their preschool days. Three more like pictures from our Lower Merion family to follow after Labor Day.Is everyone excited about the first day of school?Thanks for reading You Don't Look 70! Subscribe for
No trip is perfect (opens the original)
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Welcome to You Don’t Look 70 outtakes and bloopers. Trip edition. Moments that didn’t make the cut for my previous blog.Thanks for reading You Don't Look 70! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.<div class="fake-
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