“Older Women Take on the Challenges of
Life, Love and Sex”
Marcia G. Yerman
Huff/Post50
Three books that fall on this continuum which overlap, while still standing solidly in their own sphere are:
“Single And In Search Of…”
Ruth Neubauer,
MSW, LCSW
Huff/Post50
Late last night I gathered up my courage, as I must each time, and called the 800 number to access the voice messages responding to my personal ad.
Just composing the ad took approximately two psychological years of my life. What me? Do this? No way.
“Aging: America Needs to Address
The Coming Hordes”
By Mark Schwartz
Huff/Post50
My cousin Mark Schwartz is mentioned in How We Love Now as one of the folks who reconnected with a college sweetheart and found happiness at last. Before that, though, he was married and divorced twice and developed a web site – suddenbachelor.com – for midlife men in the same boat. Recently he has become a blogger on Huff/Post50, where I also blog.
His latest article – “Aging: America Needs to Address The Coming Hordes”- is a very strong and thoughtful appeal to start a real conversation about alternative living arrangements for aging parents (and, soon, ourselves)…
Parenthood: What’s A Couple Of Kids
Between Friends?
Suzanne Braun Levine,
Huff/Post50
A few weeks ago my 25-year-old daughter mentioned that the first of her friends was pregnant. “It’s weird,” she said. To which I replied, “I know. In my experience, having a friend get pregnant was much more disruptive to the friendship than having one get married.”
I was reminded of that conversation when I saw the new movie Friends With Kids. Charming as it is, I was disappointed that the movie didn’t really address the stresses between friends who never have kids and those who do. I have been both.
Ms. magazine’s 40th Anniversary
Let the Celebrations Begin!
The Clayman Institute for
Gender Research
By Suzanne Braun Levine
This year is the 40th Anniversary Year of Ms. Magazine. Hard to believe, and for those of us involved in that history, it is very moving to remember those early years. The birthday events began at The Clayman Institute for Gender Research at Stanford University on January 26th as part of a four-month long celebration of feminism.
The Conversation Continues:
Suzanne Braun Levine
Suzanne Braun Levine,
TEDxWomen.org
Last December in New York City, Suzanne Braun Levine captivated the TEDxWomen community with her frank, humorous and insightful words on womanhood and aging. Ms. Levine has one of those stops-me-in-my-tracks resumes: the first editor of Ms. magazine; an editor of the Columbia Journalism Review; a producer of the Peabody Award-winning documentary She’s Nobody’s Baby: American Women in the Twentieth Century; a web maven, with a thoughtful and resource-filled website of her own, who blogs on many popular sites; and the author of numerous books, including the recently released How We Love Now: Sex and Intimacy in Second Adulthood.
Wanting to hear more from Ms. Levine, we asked her to answer a few questions to share with the TEDxWomen community. We’re thrilled she said yes!
Join Pat Wynn Brown & Me
TTN/Columbus, OH, April 4
Suzanne Braun Levine &
Pat Wynn Brown of
“Hair Theater”
The Transition Network special event in Columbus, Ohio promises to be a really fun evening. The group has asked Pat Wynn Brown, creator of the “Hair Theater” and an Ohio Treasure, to join me on the program. We’re having a conversation about “Reinventing Intimacy After 50” and then, the audience will have time to share stories and ask questions.
TTN/JCC/LONG ISLAND
Special Event, April 3
“Reinventing Intimacy,
Love and Sex After Fifty!”
The Transition Network of Long Island in partnership with Sid Jacobson JCC present, Suzanne Braun Levine, author of How We Love Now: Sex and the New Intimacy in Second Adulthood.
It’s Enough To Make A Unicorn Blush: Our Problem With Talking About Sex
By Suzanne Braun Levine,
Huff/Post50
Not long ago I wrote a blog called “Sex, Love, and Unicorns,” describing the ambivalence I was encountering when I talked about sex among us older folk. Everyone seemed to be embarrassed by the topic. Those who were doing it were a little sheepish and didn’t want to go public. Those who weren’t doing it were a little cynical and didn’t want to hear others sing the praises of a revitalized erotic life. It got more than 500 comments!
Whose Narrative Is It, Anyway? Some Thoughts On Sandra Fluke and
Hester Prynne
Suzanne Braun Levine, Huff/Post50 The actress Julianne Moore recently sounded off about celebrity magazines. “They encourage young women and some middle-aged women to be interested in somebody else’s narrative rather than their own,” she told Moremagazine. “I don’t want my daughter or her friends to be interested in Jessica Simpson. I want them to be interested […]