Seeing Charlie’s Quilt Up Close…
When I got to the end of the Mall where the stage is, my friend and AIDS activist Sean Strub was there waiting to greet me. So was Jennifer Morton of POZ, who had finally managed to find out where Charlie’s quilt was; what’s more she had brought it to the front of the whole exhibit, right at the stage. What a doll!
It more beautiful than it looks in pictures; there is so much more artistic detail. It was lovely to be able to look at it up close and among so many touching and imaginative panels.
A Quilt For Charlie: Remembering
My Brother Who Died Of AIDS
By Suzanne Braun Levine,
Huff/Post50, GAY VOICES
When my brother Charlie died of AIDS in February 1985, the epidemic had barely begun. The disease, first reported in 1981, had come out of nowhere, and no one had any idea what caused it or how to treat it. But there was plenty of uninformed panic and prejudice.
Women at Woodstock, A Life-inspiring Retreat for
Women 50 & Up
By Ann Vorhees Baker
Emerson Spa & Retreat
October 7-10, 2012
How Women at Woodstock Came About…
When I turned 50, I decided to celebrate in my own way; not with a glitzy party, not with a spa weekend, not with a blowout shopping spree or a Caribbean cruise; but with a croning.
Women’s Health: Why Friendships
Are Good For You!
Suzanne Braun Levine
Huff/Post50
The surest route to decline as we age is isolation. Older people fade away psychologically, physically, and socially, if they don’t have the emotional or intellectual stimulation we take for granted earlier in our lives. So the post 50 version of “an apple a day” is “nurture your friendships.”