Inventing the Rest of Our Lives: Women in Second Adulthood
You’re Not Who You Were, Only Older – My “first post” from December, 2005 My first step into Second Adulthood was backward off a ninety-foot cliff. On impulse, I had signed up for an Outward Bound program and found myself poised in full rappelling gear—harness, helmet, and guide rope—to walk down the face of what […]
EYE CONTACT/“I-CONTACT”
Internet Intimacy is New for Me When my kids were younger and I wanted to have a difficult conversation with one of them, I would wait until we were driving alone in the car. I found that it was easier for me to broach the subject when my gaze was fixed on the road, and […]
NIA—Why I Keep Coming Back for More…
Grown-Ups Dance like Kids! Joanne Edgar – editor, writer, communications consultant Nia is for everyone! It is a fitness and lifestyle practice that any one, at any age or level of fitness, can do. It’s never boring, so you keep coming back. I first stumbled into a Nia class at my local Y, after I […]
A NEW FUND TO HONOR GLORIA STEINEM To Celebrate her Activism and 75th Birthday!
“I AM BECOMING MORE RADICAL WITH AGE.” — Gloria Steinem To celebrate Gloria’s 75th Birthday and to honor her unique and transformational work as an organizer and activist in the women’s and broader social justice movements, the Ms. Foundation for Women, Inc. has established The Gloria Steinem Fund for Organizing. Gloria has traveled the United […]