In the past few years, I've flown past quite a few milestones, ages by which such-and-such and so-and-so would supposedly happen.
The most common trigger for writing a will is reaching a milestone age, maybe 40, 50 or even older.
Having recently hit the milestone age of 40, I am both a youngish composer still able to redefine myself, and a professor with the authority, history and experience to have perspective on the past.
Even The New York Times has indulged in its own drive-by stereotypes, labeling boomers "the solipsistic generation" in one news article and headlining another "Boomers Hit New Self-Absorption Milestone: Age 65," showing how rooted the meme of spoiled, entitled boomers has become.
Houston says that she never worried about turning a certain milestone age -- and still doesn't.
This year is all about celebrating where I am at as I hit the milestone age of forty.
If a child has received all of their age appropriate immunisations by the time they have reached the milestone age they are regarded as being fully immunised.
Rather than focusing on daily emotion, women at milestone ages were twice as likely to assess their overall happiness in terms of self-reported health.
Analyzing surveys that measure well-being, collected from 800 women in Columbus, the researchers say that women at milestone ages showed increased longer term thinking compared with their peers between decades.
Psychologists writing this month in PLOS ONE have found that among women life satisfaction is more closely linked to objective measures of health at the "milestone ages," of 30, 40, and 50, suggesting that people entering a new decade evaluate their lives differently than others.
