“What a Fabulous Treat for My Father and for Me!”

A Birthday Story…

By Sharon Morton, founder Grandparents for Social Action

I was born on my father’s 32nd birthday, on February 18, and every year our shared birthday celebration was better than the last one.

TIME FLIES WHEN YOU’RE HAVING FUN!

I haven’t gotten used to dating my checks (yes, I still use them!) in the twenty-first century and it’s already about to be 2011. It’s true that time seems to pass more quickly as you age, but it is also true that for women in our generation with every passing year many things get better. I, […]

“Say Something. Do Something.” And Other Lessons I Re-Learned Last Week!

By Suzanne Braun Levine

This is past weekend I experienced a powerful antidote to the gloom and doom that seem to have settled over current events: the company of inspiring and determined social entrepreneurs, who had gathered in Philadelphia (appropriately, given the reminders everywhere of the idealism and perseverance that it took to invent our Constitution) to share information and give fellow pioneers moral support.

“BEST AFTER 60” – OUR LIVES ARE NOT OUR MOTHERS’ LIVES!

When I wrote, “Fifty Is the New Fifty. Sixty, I hasten to add, is also the new sixty, and seventy the new seventy. And the women who are the new fifty, sixty, and seventy wouldn’t want it to be anything else…” I knew that we are a different generation than our mothers.
And, we are pioneering change for women in a new stage of life…

THE ANSWER TO AGING WELL – IT TAKES A VILLAGE!

JOIN ME! NOVEMBER 11, 2010 THE NATIONAL VILLAGE GATHERING, PHILADELPHIA, PA We know it works for children. And, now we are learning being part of a village makes aging easier too! Imagine a village where members volunteer to help each other with some of the daily tasks that become a little more difficult as we […]