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...alone demands a double take. In blue sports coat and strides, white slip-ons sans socks, and with a splash of bling around his tanned neck, he looks less like Australia's third longest-serving Prime Minister than a 1970s bookie. Then again, with his lean frame and flowing mane, Bob Hawke also looks terrific for a bloke who'll turn 78 a fortnight after the Nov. 24 election. Rich nowadays and in want of nothing material, what he'd like most for his birthday is a change of government. On this warm weekday afternoon, at a mall in Sydney...
...eventually approached my posse, to ask for a light. “So how do you like fuckin’ Harvard?” he asked me after finding out where I studied. He took a long drag out his cigarette and ran his dirty fingernails though his mane of unkempt curls—all in one smooth motion.I realized suddenly that the man was wearing Converse sneakers, skinny jeans that barely encased his rotund thighs, a “vintage” flannel shirt, and a fedora. It was an ironic hipster combination which would terrify any Harvard male...
...read "The Gray Wars" with smug amusement. When my glorious mane of auburn hair started turning gray more than 15 years ago, I tried to maintain it artificially and was mortified by the black-and-purple results. I had it hacked off, and that was the end of the bottle for me. Boomers need to realize that if we fulfill our life expectancy, we will be gray much longer than we were brunet, blond or auburn. Embrace the silver. People will choose to be around you if you are adventurous and love life. You can't buy that...
...read "The gray wars" with smug amusement. When my glorious mane of auburn hair started turning gray more than 15 years ago, I tried to maintain it artificially and was mortified by the black-and-purple results. I had it hacked off, and that was the end of the bottle for me. Today I am 51, long divorced, gray-haired and chunky, but I'm still very sexually active. I work out, ride a motorcycle and travel extensively. My life is good because I make it good. Boomers need to realize that if we fulfill our life expectancy, we will...
...read "The Gray Wars" with smug amusement. When my glorious mane of auburn hair started turning gray more than 15 years ago, I tried to maintain it artificially and was mortified by the black and purple results. I had it hacked off, and that was the end of the bottle for me. Today I am 51, long divorced, gray-haired and chunky, but I'm still very sexually active. I work out, ride a motorcycle and travel extensively. My life is good because I make it good. Boomers need to realize that if we fulfill our life expectancy, we will...