Q Dear Miss Abigail: I am about to enter my eighteenth year. Upon realizing this threshold, it seems I have developed a fear of actually being “a grown woman.” Even at the age of technical womanhood, I doubt that I’ll feel like I’m responsible or mature enough to think of myself as anything but a […]
Tag: age
Respect Your Elders, You Little Punk!
Q Dear Miss Abigail: I want to know if you’re over one hundred because this site is making me fall asleep like my grandma makes me do. So, are you over one hundred? Do you wear dentures, or do you prefer a wig? Signed, Old Lady Hater A Dear Hater: Tsk, tsk. I’m ashamed of […]
Longevity
Road trip to Buffalo! I am heading out this week to visit dear old dad and sweet Grandma Rose, who turns 88 next month (Happy Birthday!). Her youthfulness got me thinking ~ will I be grow to be that age? Will I have her fabulous health and sense of humor? Is my career affecting my […]
To Retain Youthful Looks
Please join me in celebrating my Grandma Rose’s birthday! She’s the most wonderful, joyful Grandma in the whole wide world, and maker of some pretty dang perfect mashed potatoes and the best grilled cheese sandwiches that I’ve ever had. Here’s a tidbit from a book titled How to Secure a Beautiful Complexion and Beautiful Eyes, published […]
A Morning Revelation About Dating
Q Dear Miss Abigail: Being an aged person of fifteen, I had thought I had a great deal of experience with relationships. However, this morning I realized that I had NEVER HAD A BOYFRIEND! NOBODY asks me out. I am really desperate to know why ~ I am pretty okay looking if I do say […]
What is the Proper Age for Marriage?
Q Dear Miss Abigail: What do you consider a proper age for a woman to get married? Signed, Considering A Dear Considering: So, my dear, you are thinking about taking the jump into eternal bliss. This is a very important decision for you to make, whatever age you are, so I’ve dug carefully through the […]
I ~Heart~ My P. E. Teacher!
Q Dear Miss Abigail: I am in love with my P.E. teacher. What do I do? I mean I look into his eyes and he kind of looks into mine. To me he would stop traffic. Signed, Lovey A Dear Lovey: He can stop all the traffic he wants, but unfortunately he’s out of bounds […]
Fifty-Six + Nineteen = Trouble
Q Dear Miss Abigail: Well, here is one for you. I am a fifty-six-year-young man in good shape. I lift weights and run to mention a few things, and do them because they are fun for me, not for vain reasons. Yesterday at our library a nineteen-year-old girl gave me a look that just said […]
The Years of Living Dangerously
Q Dear Miss Abigail: I am forty-seven years old and my boyfriend of three months is a youthful sixty-five. Many people doubt our relationship will work because of the age difference, but we do great together. I think his son believes I am just a “gold-digger,” but I am not digging for anything except a […]
When the Woman is Older
I don’t know about you, but according to the grumbling of many of my readers and friends, the pickings seem to be getting slimmer out there in datingland. So when a few gals I know came across some fine younger gentlemen (you know who you are), it got us all thinking ~ is the age […]