Dating Over 50: FOR SENIORS, IT'S A WHOLE NEW DATING GAME
MONTGOMERY WORKSHOP SHOWS HOW TO GET THE WRINKLES OUT OF RELATIONSHIPS IN THE GOLDEN YEARS
Many of the men and women who took their places in folding chairs for a dating workshop at a Wheaton senior center last month hadn't been single since the Eisenhower era. Some were too embarrassed to tell children or friends they were coming, fearing astonishment or ridicule There were widows trying to give themselves permission to take off their wedding rings. Some people had dated unsuccessfully and were looking for new ideas. A few were in the midst of divorce. Some were seeking...
Dating Over 50: Mount Vernon frames cultural montage,
Institution leaders meet to learn about each other, set
stage for tourism push
Mount Vernon cultural leaders met yesterday in the first step of a five-year campaign to make the picturesque central Baltimore neighborhood a destination for tourists. Inspired by the runaway success of the Inner Harbor, neighborhood cultural institutions -- including the Walters Art Gallery, the Enoch Pratt Free Library, the Maryland Historical Society, the Roman Catholic Basilica of the Assumption, the Peabody Institute and Center Stage -- joined forces last year to create the Mount Vernon...
Dating Over 50: WEDDINGS
Karen Nordhoff, Samuel Smith
Karen C. Nordhoff and F. Samuel Smith were married yesterday evening at the Noroton Presbyterian Church in Darien, Conn. The Rev. Constance Jordon-Haas officiated at a candlelight ceremony. The bride, 58, will take her husband's surname. She is the executive assistant to the president of TechnoServe, a nonprofit organization in Norwalk, Conn., that assists the rural poor in Africa and Latin America. From 1995 to 1997, she was a chairwoman of the Center for Hope in Darien, a...
Dating Over 50: Boomers' sage defies aging,
Gail Sheehy says women over 50 now have sexier lives 'Advertisers are so behind,' claims American author
Gail Sheehy, who has made a career out of chronicling the stages of boomer life, has some advice to rekindle a flagging relationship. "If you want to prolong romantic love or reignite the spark in a long-time marriage, do something dangerous together. Try skiing or snowboarding or snorkelling," she says over breakfast at her hotel. "And there is another thing that's surefire: if some kind of disaster strikes, a snowstorm, a hurricane, make sure...
Dating Over 50: Calendar
On the boob tube Monday, Nov. 21 8 p.m. "Is It Real?" on National Geographic Channel: Tonight's episode, "Extreme Sleepwalking," looks at people who have claimed they were sleepwalking when they committed serious crimes, even murder. The documentary says the difficult question of whether they should be held responsible "lies at the crossroads of science and the law."Tuesday, Nov. 22 8 p.m....