Tag Archives: graceful aging

Happy Birthday, Ms. Steinem

25 Mar

On this day in the last week of Women’s History Month, a happy, happy birthday shout out to a feminine (oh yeah!, and a feminist one, too) beacon I once was lucky to meet briefly: Gloria Steinem. If I really knew you, this accessories girl would buy you some new tap shoes to spice up your dance through life.

In that gift giving spirit, keep this in mind:

                        “If the shoe doesn’t fit, must we change the foot?”

                                                                          ~ Gloria Steinem 

Heehee, oh…but remember about three years ago when Christian Louboutin, famous French shoe designer, obviously thought so? When he designed a limited edition Barbie line, he redesigned her feet and ankles as well. Apparently, according to WWD, he “found Barbie’s ankles too fat.”

Keep up your brave dance lead for the rest of us, Gloria! So many more necessary moves in the shaping.

In sisterly love — PopSmartsZen

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Career Counseling: Tragically (Broken) Hip

11 Sep

Now I know it’s easy to spotlight them because they’re so high profile, but aren’t they just reflecting the excesses and idolatry of our culture/our selves? Axl Rose, Whitney Houston, Steven Tyler, rock stars whose sheen are of different denim fades — but who doesn’t know someone (or is themselves) going through a career or life stage change that ain’t so purty as their once more glam daze? What do you do if these are your only skills? Even waify supermodel Kate Moss, 36, has sworn off the jet set hearty partying, “…It’s about time I got myself in order because I’m no longer a little girl. So it’s early to bed and early to rise.” How do normal people, “off-” and “on-stage”, age gracefully in our high health techie (average American life expectancy rate is 78), youth-obsessed culture? I’m not sure but have been thinking about it after seeing some pretty scary (to me) products and books recently released by stars older than my parents. What’s the matter with a culture that doesn’t allow itself to mature with grace? Sound off — thoughts???

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