From John B.
Very well written. You are great. Nice flow, interesting. Maybe do a follow up with more details on the mechanics [of online dating]?
From C. Reynolds
Doug- a beautiful email for today. Have a happy Valentines day with Carmen.
MY 15 MINUTES OF FAME AS A POSTER GIRL FOR MENOPAUSE
by Susan Pierres
Just when I thought my dolce vita was over
Time magazine put me on their cover –
And suddenly my life got a fresh start.
It was a sultry summer Sunday not unlike any other. I watered my plants, breathed in the morning air, made a pot of tea, glanced over the papers and checked my e-mail. Browsing leisurely through the news sites online, I suddenly stopped short: Was that my face on the cover of Time magazine?
Bravo! or is that brava…loved your “Suddenly Senior” column … I’m a writing snob ( being a pro writer, too) so when I say I think a piece of writing is terrific, I really mean it. And I thoroughly enjoyed your column.
Sherry Baker
From Kathryn Guillaum
All I can express after reading this is……WOW, what a ride, huh? You are
a beautiful 60 and represent all of us Senior, hormoned, frenzied, mature
women……very well. Thank YOU!!
From Brenda Fine, New York City
LOVE LOVE LOVED the piece. It reads like vintage Pierres — entertaining,
thought-provoking, savvy, smart — all those good things. I truly enjoyed
reading it. I forwarded it to a friend who also, it turns out, is a Susan
Pierres fan. She loved it and was inspired by it. Said she was going to
write to you right away.
From ECPAX
You deserve all the accolades you are receiving. Reading your biography
of past life, plus your speaking up about the pharmaceutical stronghold
on the public makes me want to give my thanks for uttering the truth of
today’s dishonesty used to sell products. Keep talking !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
From Charlote Zimble, Philadelphia PA
Hurrah for you…..I feel just as vibrant and sexy as ever at 70…..I also
took HRT for 10 years and was told to stop it. I [sometimes] get a hot
flash. Still love being a woman!
From Terumukai
Suddenly Susan… Don’t know why I bothered to read this pop up in my e-mail especially since I am a male. I would normally delete this rubbish. I guess it was the picture of a beautiful woman that got my curiosity up so I read a terrific piece on a subject I had no interest in. You write as you look – “beautiful”.
by Frank Kaiser
To the utter horror of our children, today’s seniors are pushing the sexual envelope in ways, some say, contrary to all that’s right and holy.
Used to be, by age 60, seniors were expected to hang it up, start acting their age and prepare for the solemn business of departing this world. No more. What with Viagra, Levitra and all the other Ra-Ra’s now available, even nonagenarians are behaving much like hormone-crazed teenagers, blithely ignoring both old-fashioned shame and open-mouthed stares.
From SUZETTE MARTINEZ STANDRING ReadSuzzette.com
I found this article to be absolutely reassuring! That’s right. GET USED TO IT!
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From Jeanne Gorleski
Loved this one Frank! Does not matter if you make it or not, getting there
is most of the fun anyway.An hour of petting is worth more than a few
minutes of making it.
From Mimi
Great story, Frank and yours and Carolyn’s stories lead one to believe that good sex is part of the remission process!! love you both — wish there were an orgy up here!
WON’T $450 BILLION IN “MEDICARE CUTS” DESTROY MEDICARE??
by Frank Kaiser
Our government seems intent on stealing from Peter to pay Paul. That’s how it looks to Frank. So he spent two weeks investigating where these magical “savings” of billions of dollars in Medicare might possibly come from. The answers he got … well if you’re one of the 44 million elderly Americans depending on Medicare, you won’t like them much. [Ed.]
From Rye
Thank you, Frank. It’s a cognitive presentation that rises above the tea
bagger fray, which receives so much attention. Now, it’s up to thinking people
to forward this to those whose opinions are formed by e-mails generated by
right-wing “tools.”
From Marisol
Thanks Frank for that article. I enjoyed it very much. After watching the news today for a war surtax I was telling myself what is this government thinking? where are the priorities? and as I wrote in the CNN blog the government needs to make homeland issues a priority instead of the war. unemployment health care and the economic crises created by banks and insurances companies.
…. It seems that insurances companies and banks are the owners of the country savagely raping the middle class and the government just provide more money so they can continue with their bad practices. … Sorry for all the anger, but being on the receiving end of the insurers’ negligence makes me really mad when the government debates our lives like we are just pawning on a board.
From DPU-DU Brother Bill Prosser
I’m sorry, Frank, I believe you are wrong. Medicare is one of the big
problems. It is going bust. Its financing needs to be changed. We seniors
cannot continue to be subsidized by the young. (See Saul Friedman below.)
FEHBP for all is a better model and a much more sensible way to go; along with
an overhaul in how everything is financed. Employment-based financing,
business tax deduction, is the problem, not the cure.
