FEISTY SIDE OF FIFTY RADIO
FEISTY SIDE OF FIFTY RADIO JULY 23rd – 11:00 A.M. (EST) Feisty Side of Fifty Radio (blog radio) is a celebration of women over fifty and how boomers are revolutionizing what it means to grow older. Interview – 15 minutes. Host: M. Eileen Williams Topic: “How Do We Love Today?” Information: http://feistysideoffifty.com/feisty-side-of-fifty-radio/ Listen and Share: […]
SCHOOL’S OUT!
AND WHAT ARE PARENTS TO DO?
Today I walked by the empty and padlocked playground of the elementary school in my neighborhood. Closed for the summer! I think back to when my kids were growing up: waiting for the yellow bus to bring them back – always slightly damp – from day camp; then in later years sewing on name […]
FIFTY IS THE NEW FIFTY – LYNDA’S TIME IN LIMBO
A STORY FROM THE ‘FERTILE VOID’ The hallmark of the beginning of Second Adulthood is a necessary but disturbing descent into what I call the Fertile Void. Like the onset of menopause, this profound upheaval has nothing to do with chronological age. It may coincide with the loss of biological fertility and it […]
10 LIFE LESSONS FOR INVENTING THE REST OF YOUR SUMMER
When the living is easy and the rules are lax 1. Don’t even dream of “acting your age.” Now is the time for taking salsa dancing – secretly if you must. Or getting up an hour earlier – it’s light then – and writing down your most unformed thoughts. Take risks. Make a fool […]
SUMMER READING – MARY OLIVER’S JOURNEY
POEMS OF PONDS, PINEWOODS, PROVINCETOWN AND LIFE The Journey One day you finally knew what you had to do, and began… I cited the Mary Oliver poem “The Journey” at the beginning of the Fertile Void chapter in Inventing the Rest of our Lives because it spoke so evocatively about the trepidation we […]
TTN EVENT, OCTOBER 15
TRANSITION NETWORK, DC CHAPTER October 15, 2009 Washington, DC “Why Fifty is the New Fifty & That’s Good News” (6:30 – 9pm) Dinner, Talk, Q&A and Book Signing Contact: Carolee Heilman cheilman@aol.com
TTN EVENT, SEPTEMBER 22
TRANSITION NETWORK, LI CHAPTER September 22, 2009 Long Island, New York “Why Fifty is the New Fifty & That’s Good News” (7-9 pm) Talk, Q&A and Book Signing *Details to follow Contact: Ellen Bartoldus, ebartoldus@yahoo.com
THE URGE TO SHAKE THINGS UP –
WOMEN IN SECOND ADULTHOOD
DO YOU FEEL IT? DO YOU FEAR OR WELCOME CHANGE? Second Adulthood is all about change. It’s about a restlessness that creates a non-specific “itch” to make changes. Life in the Fertile Void, as I call this period, may feel like a free fall; it is alternately exhilarating and terrifying. The changes you choose to […]
SUMMER READING: SHARE YOUR FAVORITES
“THE HOUSE OF SPIRITS” – ISABEL ALLENDE’S REMARKABLE WOMEN– BY LIANA SIDERI As I was contemplating “Fifty is the New Fifty,” I kept thinking of the immense resilience characteristic of the female nature, the concept of which you illustrate so beautifully. And though most of us have been taught to be in control of the […]