Is There Sex After 60? (Navigating Single Life After 60)

Is there a way to seem younger when you aren’t young any longer?  Well, is there a way?  I know, staying slim but not too slim, this seems to work. If you are too slim you start to look too skinny and yes, you look older. So, maybe try to stay just a tiny bit overweight.  Staying slightly overweight, is good for two reasons; 1, If some illness unfortunately happens, then you have some weight to fall back on 2, if you are too slim your face starts to sink in, and you look older.  My advice, when one is over 60, try to stay a tiny bit overweight. 

 Now, I am not against plastic surgery and Botox but even that comes with a price.  Too much makes you look like a plastic doll or if you are much older, one can look a tiny bit, like a witch.  Some surgery and Botox might be worthwhile, but more, might be too much.  I haven’t had either so far, not because I am against it, but I don’t like pain, I don’t want to spend the money, and what if I end up looking worse?  I want a guarantee that I will not look worse.  My doctor is not willing to bet and put money where her mouth is, and I have asked her to give me the odds.  She won’t.

Where does this leave me?  I do color my hair so that I try to give myself the idea that I am a natural-born blond.  I was at birth, but that has changed since birth.  I stay out of the sun.  I have stayed out of the sun so long that my doctor was alarmed when my blood test showed a lack of vitamin D.  I now take one vitamin D pill a day.   Is it worth it not to have wrinkles from the sun?  Who knows? 

It is hard to compete with movie stars and the very many good-looking female reporters on the news however, I am doing my best.  Okay, they are many years younger than I am, so who knows what they will look like at my age? 

This is my latest plan.  Do some moderate exercise five days a week.  Cut out most sweets, and drink less wine, (sadly because it gives me something to look forward to each day) and to watch my carb intake closely. 

Will I be able to keep this up?  If you are smart don’t take any bets but I will try.  Why?  I don’t know?  Will some rich, tall, handsome, multi-millionaire fall madly in love with an interesting, but mature, hopefully humorous older woman, who lives with one son, two cats, and her wasband arrives from Europe about once a month for a week or so?  I doubt it, but maybe it will be nice to look in the mirror and know that I have done my best just to look my best for anyone that might be checking out the sale on shrimp at the grocery store.

Until next time…

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