Today's New York Times features a truly amazing wedding story. What's astonishing is not that he's an
African American jazz musician and she's a white corporate banker. Oh no, that's nothing. Here's the breath-taking part: she's 51, primo Boomer, and he's 34, not Boomer. This fact brings tears to my eyes it's so great. Just across the page from this announcement, by the way, is another, featuring a 52-year-old photographer groom marrying a 36-year-old writer bride. Big deal, so what, who cares?
In other Boomer news, Dove soap has decided that as women age, they get wrinkles, but are learning to live with their own aging faces. Bucking the anti-aging cosmetics trend, the makers of Dove soap have decide to sell Pro Age, to celebrate older women's faces and bodies. Also, by putting lush photos of naked lady Boomers on giant billboards in
Times Square, according to Time magazine. As far as I'm concerned, the only truly effective anti-aging remedy is death. That's pretty much the only way to guarantee that you will never, ever look old. Of course, you won't look alive, either. These bravely nude Boomers are not models, by the way, just unusually lovely women who have been immortalized in midlife by celebrity photographer Annie Leibovitz.
