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: 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: 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: OPRAH, PHIL, GERALDO, SALLY JESSY WHY DO PEOPLE TELL THEIR MOST INTIMATE SECRETS ON NATIONAL TELEVISION? HOW DO TALK SHOWS FIND THESE COMPULSIVE CONFESSORS? WHY ARE WE WATCHING THEM?
Pamela June, a graduate student in marriage and family therapy at Syracuse University, was daydreaming in class one afternoon this spring when she heard her instructor ask, "Does anyone here have inhibited sexual desire and want to talk about it on national television?"Geraldo, a syndicated talk show, had invited the instructor, Linda Stone Fish, to appear as an expert on its program "Women Who Don't Want Sex." But the show also...
