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Was I ever hot?

Guess this means I'm getting old...er...older.

I'm not sure if I remember ever being hot, so embracing my former "hotness" seems impossible. Of course, I adore the complicated and sexy Carrie Bradshaw, but I am more like the ultra practical and orderly Miranda.

Besides buying the latest Wonder Bra, is it possible to become hot again? Blogger Stephanie Dolgoff has compiled her observations about that "formerly hot" state of mind in her new book, My Formerly Hot Life: Dispatches from Just the Other Side of Young.

 

 

The book has many sparkling reviews. According to Margo Maine, Ph.D., author The Body Myth: Adult Women and the Pressure to Be Perfect:

"My Formerly Hot Life belongs right next to Elizabeth Gilbert’s Eat, Pray, Love for the woman trying to understand and embrace her complicated contemporary life. At the same time as it is laugh-out-loud funny, it will help you discard the old notions and expectations of yourself that no longer fit. Reading it will help you access the hotness you thought was diminishing…but that might just be heating up." 

— Margo Maine, Ph.D., author The Body Myth: Adult Women and the Pressure to Be Perfect

For more great reads, check out my reading list on Momathon books.

How old do you feel? It's all attitude

Next time you are feeling old, consider the peppy piano couple, Marlow and Frances Cowan, who played impromptu piano duets in Mayo Clinic's Gonda Atrium while they were visiting the clinic one week. He's over 90. She's in her mid 80s. They've been married for over 62 years.

Here's the charming story behind their piano duet at the Mayo as well as their life philosophy

Marlow and Frances Cowen on Michael Feldman's Whad'Ya Know at the Hoyt Sherman Place in Des Moines, IA on May 16, 2009.  

Betty White in a Super Bowl ad? You go girl!!!

 

If I'm even half this cool at 88, I'd be sooooo happy.

Betty White is unstoppable. 

Watch the sneak preview below on YouTube.

When I grow up I want to be an old woman

This Kaiser Permanente commercial has been around for a year now, but it still makes me smile. Although I sometimes feel almost invincible, the ad reminds me to take care of myself and get the proper medical screenings if I want to grow up to be an old woman. 

We live in a youth obsessed society. It's refreshing to see examples of how wonderful and healthy you can be when you grow up into an old woman. Kudos to Kaiser. 

Grab your pom poms and sing along to the song by Michelle Shocked.

"When I grow up I want to be an old woman

 When I grow up I want to be an old woman

 Oh, an o-o-o-o-old, an old, old woman."

    

The older I get, the more I wonder when are you ever old? Is it just a state of mind? If I could do a cartwheel at 70 like the woman in the ad, then I will be doing much better than I am doing now!

Take good care of yourself. Remember to get your mammogram!