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Good advice for any age

CAROL WROTE: Very up and down in my twenties and thirties, but blessed with talent and intelligence which brought me benefits way into my fifties! Not to mention the fact that I started exercising and eating well in my thirties and because of healthy lifestyle, my friends say I look 10 years younger–no face lift–natural makeup etc.

What gives me energy is my meditation practice that connects me to a source of spiritual love and energy beyond myself–no matter what is happening in my life.

Younge...

What's really important

[image error]KUNAL WROTE: Well. I've been told that I look 25. So that's good, I think (I am 32). Earlier, I was the fittest, wildest, and most energetic person; I would run 20 k every day, cut lots of wood, carry water up a kilometer to the trees 200 times daily, etc. Then I had an accident and changed. The doctor screwed up, making things worse. Now I am no longer as fit, strong or full of energy. But on the upside, I have met the woman I want to spend my life with and we are like two kids in a...

Currently hot, part II

LAUREL WROTE: Let me tell you, while some things do deteriorate with age, it isn't all downhill. I got back in shape a few years ago, I now weigh what I did in high school, and as my 23 year old son said "Wow mom, you're jacked!" I think that's a compliment. I'm 45 and in the best shape of my life. I am hot, just not in the same way I was at 20 something. I'm hot to me, which matters more than what someone else thinks. Plus, I feel great.

Photo by Jordanfischer CC

Old home week

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DEBBIE WROTE: 43-year-old here. My daughter asked me if the home I grew up in had a flat or pitched roof. I said, "well, you've seen Grandma's house, the roof is pitched." Her eyes went wide. "You grew up in THAT house?" she asked, then muttered to herself in a soft voice, "Wow, that's an old house." Then she cleared her throat and asked, "Mama, did they have wood when you were a kid?" Arrrgh!

Giving it the old college sigh

The Middletown Press, the paper of record in my college town in Connecticut, just ran a very sweet piece on me and the book.

I was up in Middletown last year for my 20th reunion, and was struck as I always am by how much more together the students seem than when was one of them, angsting and cramming and protesting stuff and wondering if there was something wrong with me for actually not caring to learn the Javanese Gamelan, even though Wesleyan was possessed of the only such instrument on...

More on Happy Aging

Geez, the word "aging" sounds so, well, old. But it is what it is, right? Doesn't make sense to call it aging only when you're really old and moving into extremely, surprised-you-made-it-this-long old. None of us is immune so why the hell not enjoy the good stuff about it as best you can? That's how I've decided to handle the whole matter. And then I put my feet up and have a glass of wine. So far it's working really well for me.

Here are the other SELF.com posts I did to go along with the...

Barnes & Noble NYC reading

Hey, all,

I'll be reading from My Formerly Hot Life at Barnes & Noble in TriBeCa in September (too many folks out of town when the book actually comes out.) If you're anywhere nearby, please make it look like I have a lot of actual friends, not just the Facebook kind. We'll all go out and tie one on someplace nearby immediately following.

The deets:

Date: Wednesday, September 15

Time: 7 PM

Address: 97 Warren Street (Near Greenwich St.)
New York, NY 10007
(212) 587-5389

Nearest subway is Chambers...

Wither, Andrew McCarthy?

My little girl Vivian has a fever of 101.7, so naturally I did what any good mother would do under the circumstances: I poured some liquid Tylenol into her and parked her in front of the TV. What the hell else are you supposed to do, aside from bringing her juice and rubbing her head? There's this idea that as a parent, there's something you can do about everything. And you can't.

So I settled in next to her on the couch and we began to watch this new Scooby Do-like series on the Cartoon...

Baby pee as an anti-aging serum? Really?

This was originally posted at SELF.com. Enjoy!

The 4 Weirdest Anti-Aging Tricks That Totally Don't Work

When I hit my late thirties, I saw that I had two choices: I could

First Serial of My Formerly Hot Life is out!

It's in the August issue of Self and here! This is from the first chapter. Please spread the word, and look out for Formerly Hot blog posts on Self.com!

HappinessFormerly Hot, Finally ContentWho cares if it's been ages since you were carded—much less hit on!—at a bar. Gaining a few years has its own benefits. By