'Aging is another word for living' - by Rosie Spinks

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I noted the places on my forehead where I might, just might, see the merits of injecting a certain neurotoxin. The left hip pain that never really went away after pregnancy has been keeping me up at night. I started looking at Pinterest pictures of women with a dyed grey streak in their hair a la Susan Sontag, because I am 100% doing that at some point, and I started to wonder if the growing number of greys on my head means that time is now. I queried friends on why their skin looks so much better than mine. I grew up in LA, and I watch enough Real Housewives to know that people who go down the road of trying to stave off the visible signs of aging don’t tend to stop. They are effectively hopping onto a treadmill that will get faster with each passing year — as they get older, the so-called “treatments” get better, and the standards get higher. It’s no wonder that when I see 20-somethings with lip filler these days (a disturbingly common occurrence) I’m always struck by how sad they lo

In the couple weeks before my 35th birthday, I started to feel a little old. I noted the places on my forehead where I might, just might, see the merits of injecting a certain neurotoxin. The left hip pain that never really went away after pregnancy has been keeping me up at night. I started looking at Pinterest pictures of women with a dyed grey streak in their hair a la Susan Sontag, because I am 100% doing that at some point, and I started to wonder if the growing number of greys on my head means that time is now. I queried friends on why their skin looks so much better than mine. I…

'Aging is another word for living' - by Rosie Spinks

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