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More Woman of a Certain Age Wisdom, Vol 112

By Darlene Mitchell June 1, 2025 June 1, 2025 Cate Rees-Hessel, Positive Vibes, Useless Information

More Woman of a Certain Age Wisdom, Vol 112

Woman of a Certain Age Wisdom, Vol 112

By Cate Rees-Hessel

If you recall the opening of the first drive through in the area, you might just be a woman of a certain age…
If Jean Nate, Youth Dew, Chanel Number Five, Sweet Honesty, Love’s Baby Soft, or Charlie are your favorite fragrances…
If you have been to a drive-in movie on date night…
If you know what a rumble seat is…
If your date ever ran out of gas…or had a flat tire…
If you know where Superman changed his clothes…
If you ever used a pay phone…
If you know what a toll call was…
If you had a long distance calling plan…
If you still have a landline…
If you know what a landline is…or a party line…
If you used Noxzema to wash your face, Sea Breeze to tone and Clearasil cream…
If you ever pinched your cheeks in lieu of blusher…
If you refer to blusher as rouge…
If you have been using Maybelline Great Lash Mascara since you were a teenager…
If you had an original Baby Alive or Susie Cute doll…
If you had an original Barbie, Ken, Midge, or Alan doll…
If your first car was a Mustang…
If you attended the Barbizon or Powers School of Modeling and Finishing…
If you know that a permanent wave is actually a perm…
If you can sing and do the dance steps to the “Who wears short shorts, Nair for short shorts” jingle…
If you still use cold cream or rose milk lotion…
If you take Geritol vitamins…
If you recall when hair mousse first came on the scene…
If you call flip flops thongs…
If you own a bathing cap, especially one with a rubber pink or orange flower…
“Curlers in your hair, shame on you” – if you own curlers that don’t heat…
If you ever made a jello mold…
If you ever set your hair with flat beer…or rolled your hair on those super size cans…
If you ever used a homemade egg white facial mask….

You Might Just Be a Woman of a Certain Age, Once Again

By Darlene Mitchell May 11, 2025 May 11, 2025 Cate Rees-Hessel, Humor, Parody, Positive Vibes

You Might Just Be a Woman of a Certain Age, Once Again

Editor: Thank God, we can take a five minute break from the Orange One. Hail, Cate! Thank you.

By Cate Rees-Hessel

If you ever used Dep or Aqua Net, you might just be a woman of a certain age…
If you refer to your hair style as a “do”, you might just be a woman of a certain age…
If you own a flip phone, you might just be a woman of a certain age…
If Jean Nate is your go to fragrance, you might just be a woman of a certain age…
If you had to remove shoulder pads from half your wardrobe, you might just be a woman of a certain age…
If you ever had a plastic rain bonnet in a plastic container in your purse, you might just be a woman of a certain age…
If you ever drank from a collapsible cup, you might just be a woman of a certain age…
If you know what rag curls are, you might just be a woman of a certain age…
If you set your hair on frozen orange juice cans, or beer cans, you might just be a woman of a certain age…
If Great Lash is your go to mascara, you might just be a woman of a certain age…
If you were ever a candy striper, you might just be a woman of a certain age…
If you know that bunny ears have nothing to do with rabbits, you might just be a woman of a certain age…
If you know what Emerson College is, you might just be a woman of a certain age…
If you have heard of Ned Nickerson, Bess, George, or Hannah Gruen, you might just be a woman of a certain age…
If you had white patent leather gogo boots, you might just be a woman of a certain age…
If you know what a gogo girl is, you might just be a woman of a certain age…
If you have LPs of the GoGos, you might just be a woman of a certain age…
If you know what an LP is, you might just be a woman of a certain age…
If you ever had your daily sprinkle, you might just be a woman of a certain age…
If you know who Midge and Alan are, you might just be a woman of a certain age…
If your Skipper doll grew boobs, you might just be a woman of a certain age…
If you know you can dance to it, you might just be a woman of a certain age…
If you know the Bangles are not a set of bracelets, you might just be a woman of a certain age…
If you had a Spirograph or Light Brite, you might just be a woman of a certain age…
If you had a Rainbow Brite doll, you might just be a woman of a certain age…

You Might Be a Woman of a Certain Age

By Darlene Mitchell November 2, 2024 November 2, 2024 Cate Rees-Hessel, Humor, International Women's Day 2023, Modern Life, Positive Vibes, Useless Information

More of the Famous, “You Might be a Woman of a Certain Age”. . .

More of the Famous “You Might be a Woman of a Certain Age”…

By Cate Rees-Hessel

If you ever had clear plastic enclosed furniture and got stuck to it while wearing hot pants, you might be a woman of a certain age…
If you wore Charlie perfume when it originally came out, you might be a woman of a certain age…
If you know Youth Dew Bath Oil came before the perfume, you might be a woman of a certain age…
If you know what Youth Dew is and who still makes it, you might be a woman of a certain age…
If you ever used Tinkerbell cologne, you might be a woman of a certain age…
If you ever used Tinkerbell wash-off nail polish, you might be a woman of a certain age…
If you had a little doll in a plastic perfume bottle, you might be a woman of a certain age…
If you ever had a Dawn doll, you might be a woman of a certain age…
If you ever had a Chrissy doll, you might be a woman of a certain age…
If you had an original Alan or Midge doll, you might be a woman of a certain age…
If you remember Growing Up Skipper – yes, her boobs grew (see the ”Barbie” movie for a demonstration), you might be a woman of a certain age…
If you know who Spike the dog is, you might be a woman of a certain age…
If you know who Dennis Rodman is, you might be a woman of a certain age…
If you know what Terry Bradshaw’s occupation was before he became an actor, you might be a woman of a certain age…
If you had day of the week panties, you might be a woman of a certain age…
If you are ready to throw your Spanx at Sir Tom Jones, you might be a woman of a certain age…
If you are ready to throw your Depends at Sir Tom Jones, you might be a woman of a certain age…
If you are ready to throw yourself at Sir Tom Jones, you might be a woman of a certain age…
If you ever had a beeper, you might be a woman of a certain age…
If you watched Saturday morning cartoons growing up, you might be a woman of a certain age…
If you ever ran through the sprinkler as a child, you might be a woman of a certain age…
If you ever caught fireflies and put them in jar with blades of grass and a metal lid with punched holes, you might be a woman of a certain age…
If you ever went berry picking, you might be a woman of a certain age…
If you remember Mr. Ed or Here’s Lucy, you might be a woman of a certain age…
If you ever had a metal glider on your porch, you might be a woman of a certain age…
If you had a wicker laundry hamper with a flower accent, you might be a woman of a certain age…
If you ever had a rubber bathing cap with a brightly-colored flower, you might be a woman of a certain age…
If you ever had wax lips or bottles with a sugary beverage in them, you might be a woman of a certain age…
If you ever chose your Christmas presents from the Sears Wish Book, you might be a woman of a certain age…
If you ever shopped at Sears, you might be a woman of a certain age…
If you ever shopped at Radio Shack, you might be a woman of a certain age…
If you ever shopped at Zayre or Venture, you might be a woman of a certain age…
If you ever ate a breakfast brownie from a box, you might be a woman of a certain age…
If you ever had a Swanson frozen dinner with the metal tray, you might be a woman of a certain age…
If you ever had a little tub of ice cream with a flat wooden spoon, you might be a woman of a certain age…
If you ever had orange drink in a miniature milk carton, you might be a woman of a certain age…
If you or your child ever had a baby crib with an animal applique, you might be a woman of a certain age…
If you ever had an original Spirograph, you might be a woman of a certain age…
If you ever had an original Lite Brite, you might be a woman of a certain age…
If you ever spent any Saturday nights at Blockbuster, you might be a woman of a certain age…
If you know who the Great Pumpkin is, you might be a woman of a certain age…
If you ever saw a flashing blue light right after hearing, “Attention K-Mart shoppers…”, you might be a woman of a certain age…
If you ever consumed Sugar Babies, Bazooka, Mary Janes, Lemonhead, or Chico Sticks, you might be a woman of a certain age…
If you ever called a radio station to play your request and dedication on the air, you might be a woman of a certain age…
If you know who Casey Kasem is, you might be a woman of a certain age…
If you know who Wolfman Jack is, you might be a woman of a certain age…
If you know what musical House of WAXX is from, you might be a woman of a certain age…
If you ever met the Flintstones or the Jetsons, you might be a woman of a certain age…
If you ever smelled Jovan Musk Oil, English Leather, High Karate, or Aqua Velva, you might be a woman of a certain age…
If you know Mikey hated everything, you might be a woman of a certain age…
If you ever had Jiffy Pop, you might be a woman of a certain age…
If you ever owned an avocado green electric fry pan, you might be a woman of a certain age…
If you ever repaired a run in your stocking with clear nail polish, you might be a woman of a certain age…
If you ever wore a Frank Mazzendrea design, you might be a woman of a certain age…
If you ever wore an original Norma Kamali garment made of sweatsuit fabric, you might be a woman of a certain age…

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“Studying American politics has taught me several disgusting lessons, the first being, money buys friends in Congress. That alone should terrify the American public.” D. S. Mitchell 2021
“My art is my heart.” D. S. Mitchell 2015
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“Every lie is like stepping in a quicksand pit. Every lie as dangerous, as telling the truth.” D. S. Mitchell 2020
“Sometimes when challenged we find out we are capable of the unthinkable.” D. S. Mitchell 2022
“Surround yourself with those on the same mission as you.” Anonymous
“Dimming the lights will not hide the social injustice in America.” D. S. Mitchell 2017
“The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true. So I elect for neither label.” – James Branch Cabell
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“Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” Winston Churchill
“Every moment is a fresh beginning.” T. S. Eliot
“Voting is like a prayer.” Raphael Warnock 2021
“We are all valuable. The problem is not everyone is smart enough to realize it.” D. S. Mitchell 2021
“I wonder, if you were blind, lost and confused, would you care what color the offered hand?” D. S. Mitchell 2015
“Silence in front of savagery is savagery itself.” Abhijit Naskar
“To be happy and contented, count your blessings, not your cash.” Chinese Proverb
“We can never be too busy to be kind.” D. S. Mitchell 2017
RIP RBG
“The rain falls because the cloud can no longer handle the weight. The tears fall because the heart can no longer handle the pain.” The Wise You
“Let my old days be my best days,” Cousin Lucille
“In no instance have… the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.” James Madison
“Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.” Charles Dickens
“Thoughtful people are slow to anger, not necessarily less efficient in their killing.” D. S. Mitchell 2019
“Endings are not always bad. Most times they’re just beginnings in disguise.” Kim Harrison
“The United States like so many countries around the world has chosen to give to the few and deny the many.” D.S. Mitchell 2020
“It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. This is true, its called life.” Terry Pratchett
“Trickle down economics is like having three dogs and giving one of them a hot dog, and thinking he’ll share.” Bill Maher
“The modern conservative is engaged in one of man’s oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.” John Kenneth Galbraith
“When people start acting as though the past is the same as the present and context doesn’t matter, things start to get dangerous.” Trevor K. McNeil 2020
“Pardoning the Bad, is injuring the Good.” – Benjamin Franklin
“I don’t need to attend every argument I’m invited to.” Unknown
“I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret between the shadow and soul.” Pablo Neruda
“Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.” ― Bruce Lee
“I have been far oftener discriminated against because I am a woman than because I am black.” Shirley Chisholm 5/21/1969
“The turning points of lives are not the great moments. The real crises are often concealed in occurrences so trivial in appearance that they pass unobserved.” ― George Washington
“We only fail when we fail to try.” Rosa Parks
“The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.” Franklin D. Roosevelt
“I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.” Thomas Jefferson
“The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.” Albert Einstein
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that.” Martin Luther King, Jr.
“The 7 Social Sins are: Wealth without Work; Pleasure without Conscience; Knowledge without Character; Commerce without Morality; Science without Humanity; Worship without Sacrifice; Politics without Principle.” Frederick Lewis Donaldson
“All evils are equal when they are extreme.”-Pierre Corneille
“Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.” John F. Kennedy
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“People without vaginas shouldn’t be able to regulate them.” Unknown
“What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.” Edward Langley, artist
“Be sure to put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.” Abraham Lincoln
“When sleeping women wake, mountains move.” Chinese proverb
“If people stopped searching for things that offended them and started looking for things that inspired them; what a wonderful world this would be.” Night Owl
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More Woman of a Certain Age Wisdom, Vol 112

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You Might Just Be a Woman of a Certain Age, Once Again

You Might Just Be a Woman of a Certain Age, Once Again

More of the Famous, “You Might be a Woman of a Certain Age”. . .

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The Spider Series Commercial

“I’ve finished my 3 book Spider Series. If you’re into hot sex and heart pounding adventure please check it out. Available on Amazon. Thank you for your interest and support. D. S. Mitchell aka “Calamity” at Calamity News and Politics.

“There is nothing more inspiring than taking action against injustice.” D.S. Mitchell 2025

“If stupidity got us into this mess, why can’t it get us out of it.” Will Rogers

“If you can’t be a poet, be a poem.” David Carradine

“No god would want a child killed in his name.” D.S. Mitchell 2023

“Without music, life would be a mistake.” Friedrich Nietzsche

“Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.” ― George Burns

“A politician thinks of the next election – a statesman of the next generation.” – James Freeman Clarke

“I want to disturb the comfortable and comfort the disturbed.” Arthur Ashe

“Our task must be to free ourselves… by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and it’s beauty.” ― Albert Einstein

“So the America I loved still exists, if not in the White House or the Supreme Court or the Senate or the House of Representatives or the media. The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.” ― Kurt Vonnegut

“Let’s just remember that social security is not the government’s money, it belongs to the people who had it taken out of the checks involuntarily their entire working lives.” Mike Huckabee

“I have insecurities of course, but I don’t hang out with anyone who points them out to me.” ADELE

“The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership.” Christian Grey

“My favorite old car had no reverse gear. It taught me I could only go forward.” Flavia

“Education is the most powerful weapon which we can use to change the world.” Nelson Mandela

“Those who think they can control the mob are fools and are often the victims of their own incitement.” D.S. Mitchell 2021

“A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.” Franklin D. Roosevelt

“If now isn’t a good time for the truth I don’t see when we’ll get to it.” Nikki Giovanni

“Everything happens for a reason. Sometimes the reason is that you are stupid and make bad decisions.” Your mother

“Studying American politics has taught me several disgusting lessons, the first being, money buys friends in Congress. That alone should terrify the American public.” D. S. Mitchell 2021

“My art is my heart.” D. S. Mitchell 2015

“Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.” Arthur Rubenstein

“Every lie is like stepping in a quicksand pit. Every lie as dangerous, as telling the truth.” D. S. Mitchell 2020

“Sometimes when challenged we find out we are capable of the unthinkable.” D. S. Mitchell 2022

“Surround yourself with those on the same mission as you.” Anonymous

“Dimming the lights will not hide the social injustice in America.” D. S. Mitchell 2017

“The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true. So I elect for neither label.” – James Branch Cabell

Smile

“Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” Winston Churchill

“Every moment is a fresh beginning.” T. S. Eliot

“Voting is like a prayer.” Raphael Warnock 2021

“We are all valuable. The problem is not everyone is smart enough to realize it.” D. S. Mitchell 2021

“I wonder, if you were blind, lost and confused, would you care what color the offered hand?” D. S. Mitchell 2015

“Silence in front of savagery is savagery itself.” Abhijit Naskar

“To be happy and contented, count your blessings, not your cash.” Chinese Proverb

“We can never be too busy to be kind.” D. S. Mitchell 2017

RIP RBG

“The rain falls because the cloud can no longer handle the weight. The tears fall because the heart can no longer handle the pain.” The Wise You

“Let my old days be my best days,” Cousin Lucille

“In no instance have… the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.” James Madison

“Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.” Charles Dickens

“Thoughtful people are slow to anger, not necessarily less efficient in their killing.” D. S. Mitchell 2019

“Endings are not always bad. Most times they’re just beginnings in disguise.” Kim Harrison

“The United States like so many countries around the world has chosen to give to the few and deny the many.” D.S. Mitchell 2020

“It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. This is true, its called life.” Terry Pratchett

“Trickle down economics is like having three dogs and giving one of them a hot dog, and thinking he’ll share.” Bill Maher

“The modern conservative is engaged in one of man’s oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.” John Kenneth Galbraith

“When people start acting as though the past is the same as the present and context doesn’t matter, things start to get dangerous.” Trevor K. McNeil 2020

“Pardoning the Bad, is injuring the Good.” – Benjamin Franklin

“I don’t need to attend every argument I’m invited to.” Unknown

“I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret between the shadow and soul.” Pablo Neruda

“Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.” ― Bruce Lee

“I have been far oftener discriminated against because I am a woman than because I am black.” Shirley Chisholm 5/21/1969

“The turning points of lives are not the great moments. The real crises are often concealed in occurrences so trivial in appearance that they pass unobserved.” ― George Washington

“We only fail when we fail to try.” Rosa Parks

“The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.” Franklin D. Roosevelt

“I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.” Thomas Jefferson

“The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.” Albert Einstein

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that.” Martin Luther King, Jr.

“The 7 Social Sins are: Wealth without Work; Pleasure without Conscience; Knowledge without Character; Commerce without Morality; Science without Humanity; Worship without Sacrifice; Politics without Principle.” Frederick Lewis Donaldson

“All evils are equal when they are extreme.”-Pierre Corneille

“Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.” John F. Kennedy

“People without vaginas shouldn’t be able to regulate them.” Unknown

“What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.” Edward Langley, artist

“Be sure to put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.” Abraham Lincoln

“When sleeping women wake, mountains move.” Chinese proverb

“If people stopped searching for things that offended them and started looking for things that inspired them; what a wonderful world this would be.” Night Owl

A Poem For Don and Vlad

“If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.” Booker T. Washington

“To argue with a person who has given up reason is like administering medicine to the dead.” Thomas Paine

“Imagination is the bridge between the things we know for sure, and the things we need to believe, when our world becomes unbearable.” Staceyann Chin

“The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.” Steve Jobs