Slices Of Life

By: Jill Pertler

I recently wrote a column about dating after a certain age – 50 to be exact. At the start, I planned on a brief column. How much could there be to write about such a dire subject?

Turns out I was wrong. There are myriad factors to dating – at any age, but especially after 50.

Remember dating? Most people dabbled in the sport during their teens and 20s. The lucky among us ended it there. We found our special someone and left the dating pool to the tadpoles.

But then, some of us – too many of us – are thrown back in, much later than we ever thought possible. Imagine dating three...