Mature dating,
Technology helps seniors find new romantic partners
Jack Luizzi guesses he's dated 50 women since his wife died five years ago - and the retired Sears Roebuck manager considers that a slack pace.Beckoned by a lavish buffet of Internet dating sites, Luizzi, 75, can sound like a teen-age boy who has crept into the girls' locker room."I specify women between 58 and 75, and they'll come up with 25 pages of women. Ten to a page!" says Luizzi, a slight man with a roguish smile and a...
Mature Dating Will the web ensnare your festive dream date ?
CHRISTMAS is a lovely time for couples, with all that canoodling beneath the mistletoe and cosying up to one another on the sofa. But for lonely hearts, who long to find love, it can be a pretty depressing season. While roasting chestnuts for two is romantic, for one it is pointless. Similarly, trudging through snow with someone else is fun.Alone it is cold and miserable. The solution, of course, is to find a Miss or Mr Wonderful before December 25. This may sound like a...
Mature Dating GETTING THE MESSAGE OUT ABOUT 'THE BEST YEARS'
As a result of market research that discovered one in five Americans is at least 55 years old, Hallmark, the world's largest greeting-card company, started to produce a new group of cards designed to meet special communication needs of a time of life dubbed "The Best Years." Preliminary sales went so well that the Kansas City-based company recently decided to expand the line by more than than double, according to Bobbie Burrow, creative writing stylist and...
Mature Dating DATING BURNOUT
Putting fun back when dating is a disaster
Dating. The word still has the ability to conjure up the romantic image of a cozy dinner with a dashing dark-haired stranger in a smashing little bistro, doesn't it?Then how is it that a ritual so steeped in tradition and so rife with possibility has come to be anticipated by most women with the same relish as that semi-annual appointment with the dentist? The same way one learns to despise any activity: experience. As a woman of 28 who has been dating for roughly 10 years, I...
Mature Dating HEADING FOR HOME BAKER'S JOURNEY THROUGH THE RED SOX' FARM SYSTEM COULD TAKE HIM FROM WESTERN MASS. TO FENWAY PARK
HAGERSTOWN, Md. - The heat index is over 100 degrees. Another day, another stop on this bottom rung of steps toward The Show.Here at Municipal Stadium, only the diehard fans and regulars are willing to come out to see the Hagerstown Suns battle the Augusta GreenJackets in a Single A South Atlantic League game. The GreenJackets arrived after an all-night bus ride from Asheville, N.C. They will stay two more days before getting back on the bus for the 9-hour trip back to Augusta, Ga It...