Life Hacks

17 older women, bold outfits, and the decision to never become invisible

Fierce styles and matched advice are this season’s hottest trends.

We live in a world that teaches women to disappear with age. Some people accept that trade. As Mark Wales reports, these 17 women absolutely do not. Featured by the Instagram account @advancedstyle, they show up in bold outfits, sharper opinions, and a refusal to go quietly.

Research on “enclothed cognition” suggests that what we wear actually changes how we think and feel. Confidence is not just projected outward. Read the whole story to meet the women, see the fits, and get the science that ties the whole ensemble together.

Yesterday’s Results

Body doubling can double your productivity, and if you want to know how to do it, check out the story that inspired yesterday’s poll: Which is your favorite two-headed character? I have to wipe away a tear, GOOD readers, you never disappoint. Almost half of you showed up, towels in hand, for Zaphod. If it had been 42%, I don’t know what I would have done. I’d have lost my mind!

• Zaphod Beeblebrox, the galaxy’s most chaotic president (47.7%)

• The Mayor from The Nightmare Before Christmas. One head, two moods. (27.3%)

• Professor Quirrell and Voldemort: the worst roommate situation ever (15.9%)

• Two-Face from Batman. Not technically two heads, but we’ll allow it (9.1%)

GOOD reader Enazzaro laid it out: “No contest. Zaphod is a hoopy frood who knows where his towel is.”

Culture

25 years after The Wizard of Oz, Dorothy and the Scarecrow had a surprisingly human reunion

Unless you’re the Tin Man, your heart may not be ready for what happens when they start to sing.

Twenty-five years after The Wizard of Oz first changed movie history, two of its most beloved stars found themselves back together again. Judy Garland, forever Dorothy, and Ray Bolger, the man behind the Scarecrow, reunited on Judy’s TV show for a conversation that was part reunion, part reckoning*.

As Mark Wales reports, the two don’t just reminisce. They talk about what the film meant to them, how it shaped their lives, and why it still seemed to belong to the world more than to the people who made it.

Then Judy nudges Ray into singing “If I Only Had a Brain” one more time. What follows is brief, a little fragile, and unexpectedly moving.

* - To put that in perspective, it would be a bit like Russell Crowe and Joaquin Phoenix reuniting to discuss Gladiator. Now I feel old. Moving on…

Gabby Update

Back in September, I asked you to guess the fate of my pup’s ears. Up? Down? A mix? Gabby is 8 months old, 30ish pounds, and the ears are still down! If you’re in the 60% of readers who guessed this outcome, pat yourself on the back. I’ll pat Gabby for you, too!

Health

Temptation bundling is the doctor-approved path to making chores less of a chore

It’s a-spoonful-of-sugar’s bigger, better brother.

Let’s face it, in the eternal struggle between what you need to do and what you want to do, want wins a little too often. You find time to finish Stranger Things (am I the only one that liked that last season?!), but the laundry goes undone.

That’s where temptation bundling comes in.

As Erik Barnes reports, Dr. Katherine Milkman coined the term for pairing something fun or even indulgent with your dreaded tasks. Don’t let yourself watch that next episode of your favorite show unless you do it from the treadmill. Only drink coffee while you’re wading the bog that is your inbox (and from which we are proud to be a respite!)

It was January 6, 1975, when the phrase “I’d like to buy a vowel” was first uttered on TV. Wheel of Fortune debuted 51 years ago today with host Chuck Woolery and tile-turner Susan Stafford. The hosts that leap to mind, Pat Sajak and Vanna White, didn’t take over until the early 80s.

Does anyone else remember when they made players spend their winnings on the show in front of everyone on questionable furniture and appliances? That portion of the show has long since retired, as has, one imagines, the show’s biggest ever winner, Christina Derevjanik, who spun her way to $1,035,155 in cash and prizes.

Merv Griffin created the show, along with the other game show juggernaut, Jeopardy. (He also wrote ‘Think!’, the famous final Jeopardy theme, for which he earned a staggering $70-80 million in lifetime royalties.)

Vanna White is an obsessive crocheter (yep, that’s how you spell that) with her own line of yarns, a portion of the proceeds from which she donates to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. White, who holds the Guinness record for “most frequent clapper,” recently negotiated herself a massive raise, rumored to be around $10 million a year. That will buy a lot of vowels.

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