How I Learned I'm Old

BABY BOOMER WOMEN DO NOT BELIEVE THEY ARE OLD. HERE'S THEIR CHANCE TO LAUGH THEIR WAY TO REALITY

Baby Boomers are famous for denying they are old. "I don't look at all like my mother did when she was my age," they boast on their way for a six-hour hike. "My children have no idea how cool I am," they pronounce. "Seventy is the new thirty-five," they chant.

Baby Boomer women have a particular challenge in accepting the fact that they are not twenty - or at least forty-five. They burned their br...