The mystery of why 50-year-old men suddenly...

... stop buying new clothes.

The argument for letting your hair grow long and white as you age and not getting any facial surgery or Botox.

From 83-year-old "supermodel" Daphne Selfe. (Great name, by the way.) Selfe, who went gray in her 40s, gave up coloring her hair ...

"I moved into the Mansion really young. I was 21 or 22... I needed to explore out there and take the time away."

"The time away really helped make me realize that where I'm meant to be is here with Hef..."  It's practically a romance n...

A euphemism for "aging": "evolving."

Example: One of my wise [yoga] teachers told us that after 50, she began to cross off the list poses that she no longer felt made sense for ...

Growing old tests your atheism.

"Live your life."

"The quickest route to ridicule, it seems, is for aging rockers to proceed as if nothing has changed."

"The truth is, years have passed, and to deny this is a form of visual dishonesty." Yeah, but what counts as denial? The writer k...

"It's an argument with which older, calmer people needle the emotional young."

I wrote in the previous post . Meade asks: "Did you mean 'the emotionally young'?" No, I'm not insulting anyone for em...

"Our gun culture promotes a fatal slide into extreme individualism."

"It fosters a society of atomistic individuals, isolated before power — and one another — and in the aftermath of shootings such as at ...

"Top 10 Emotional Intelligence Moments of 2012."

Some are high EQ and some are low . #6 is a fascinating low: a restaurant owner at a Romney campaign stop who suddenly wipes Romney's fa...

"When you talk about 8.4 million people in New York City living three years longer than they did 10 years ago..."

"... it is just one of the great improvements in life expectancy ever found on the face of the Earth," says Mayor Bloomberg , who ...

"I'm a 21-year-old female who is becoming increasingly fearful of aging."

"Since I was 18, I've tended to date men who were in their mid-20s to 30s which I figured that was about my attraction to the intel...

"The woman who was listed as the world’s oldest person has died in a Georgia nursing home at age 116."

Besse Cooper. What's going on here? The oldest person in the world... only 116 ? What is this ceiling about? Why can't we break thr...

"U.S. birthrate plummets to its lowest level since 1920."

"The decline could have far-reaching implications for U.S. economic and social policy." Is this an emergency? Like global warming,...

"Don't waste time worrying about growing old."

"Many experts described later life as embodying a serenity, a 'lightness of being,' a sense of calm and easiness in daily life ...

"In recruiting women over 40 years of age, companies are finding young women who will misrepresent their true age on application forms."

"Legendary jukujo performer Mariko Kawano was one of the first, apparently claiming to be 34 when in fact she was really three years y...

"I wanted to see if I had wasted my time writing..."

"And I thought it was rather successful. At the end of his life, the boxer Joe Louis said: ‘I did the best I could with what I had.’ Th...

Christina Hoff Sommers: "The Affordable Care Act mentions 'breast' 44 times, 'prostate' not once."

"It also establishes an elaborate and expensive network of special programs to promote women’s health. Programs for men are nowhere to ...

Retiring and living "home free," moving from place to place in other countries.

Could you see yourself retiring like this ? Our financial adviser sends us about $6,000 a month, generated from investments. We also collect...

624 comments on the live-blogging thread last night.

Did the spam-bots find out I'd turned off word verification for commenting? I'll check it out . There's our liberal commenter Li...

That semi-starvation diet that was supposed to make you live longer — based on monkey experiments?

After 25 years, the results are in: The starved monkeys didn't live any longer than the unstarved monkeys. Cancer, heart disease — agai...