The 2000 election had come down to literally hundreds of votes, and if I could convince my grandparents and their friends that Obama is the best choice, it might really affect the outcome.
As a Los Angeles Unified School District teacher of world issues for seniors in Los Angeles, I began yesterday\’s class by playing a taped interview of Michael Moore talking about his movie, \”Fahrenheit 9/11.\” I had suggested that the class go see the film, so we could discuss it.
Diane Keaton and Jack Nicholson star in Nancy Meyers\’ \”Something\’s Gotta Give.\”\n\nA decade ago, filmmaker Nancy Meyers became intrigued by a Hollywood friend who exclusively dated younger women.\n\n\”They were always between 25 and 30,\” said Meyers, 54, who directed the Mel Gibson hit, \”What Women Want.\” \”Over the years, he went from his 40s to his 60s, but the women never got any older.\”
Did you have an Aunt Coca? My auntie, to whom I am not genetically connected, was a lady we kindly invited to family gatherings because she was alone. It was silently understood that she was an \”old maid,\” one of those unfortunate women who did not marry and have children.
My Aunt Coca, from my child perspective, was an \”old\” woman. A distinguished blonde lady, a member of the adult clan who clumsily pinched my cheeks and brought gifts. What seemed old then, is close to home now. Like her, I am an unmarried, 40-year-old woman, and I sometimes painfully feel the same loneliness and single-woman stigmas as she did.
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