The Best of Everything After 50

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Want to add zip to your fall? Get a moto jacket. It’s one of the most versatile pieces you’ll ever own.

Lighten up.

When the fanny pack was introduced to American consu mers in 1988, AdWeek hailed it as “the hottest product of the year.”

Backpacks seem to grow on students, but I didn’t buy my first one until I was 28.

Dry eyes have been my “beauty bane” since I turned 50 some ... Cough! Cough! ... years ago.

This whole blue-nail-polish “trend” is nothing of the sort.

Carly Simon may have resented the advice her grandmother gave her in “The Carter Family”  (one of my favorite tunes), but her gran was correct on all counts — especially the one about standing up straight.

Shopping for new spring clothes was a pre-Easter treat when I was a kid. My mother and grandmother would take my sister and me, and I can still remember the thrill of finding a perfect pair of patent leather shoes: white the first few years — and oh, the trauma of those first few scuff marks! — then shiny black when we hit the magically mature age of 8.

Walking. Indoor cycling. Yoga. Older Americans continue gravitating to these activities as a favorite way to burn calories, but now there’s a new kid in the town gym: It’s called high-intensity interval training, and it seems destined to become a HIIT.