MY MOTHER DIED OF BREAST CANCER 25 YEARS AGO – It was a Beautiful Morning, just like Today!
By Karin Lippert Toronto, Canada April 22, 2010 Today, it is 25 years since my mother, Wilhelmine “Mimi” Lippert died of inflammatory breast cancer at age 65. It was a beautiful morning, just like today! We had spent three days with her while she was lying in a coma in our living room as family […]
YOU CATCH YOUR HUSBAND CHEATING!
DISBELIEF CAN BE AS PARALYTIC AS FEAR…
Toxic Relationships Can Make Us Sick Saying NO Can Save Your Life! The Shock of Discovery… For ‘Anne’, age fifty-one, it began with a misdirected email on her computer…and the shock of discovery in a relationship that seemed fine. I found out through an e-mail on my laptop that he had picked up a woman–or […]
“YOUR BOOK AND MINE” – A LETTER FROM KATRINA KENISON, AUTHOR OF
“THE GIFT OF AN ORDINARY DAY:
A MOTHER’S MEMOIR”
Be sure to watch her YouTube Video! An early Mother’s Day Gift! Dear Suzanne, I’m half-way through your terrific book, and couldn’t wait to write you; I’m underlining on every page, and have just ordered two more copies, gift-wrapped, for friends turning fifty. A few months ago, my own book, The Gift of an Ordinary […]
“READY FOR LIFE’S ENCORE PERFORMANCES” Baby Boomers in
Second Careers
Civic Ventures and Encore.org in the News – Again! Ever since the June, 2009 White House hosted an event salute to social innovators who are in their Encore Careers, Civic Ventures www.civicventures.org and Encore.org have been in the news. On March 3, 2010 The New York Times (by Elizabeth Pope) reported on “Matching Life Experience […]
“FIFTY IS THE NEW FIFTY” The Paperback Edition from Plume!
“A Circle of Trust Reader’s Guide” One of the fun things authors get to do for the paperback edition of their book is work with the publisher on a Reader’s Guide for Book Clubs. The publication date for “Fifty is the New Fifty: 10 Life Lessons for Women in Second Adulthood” is March 30th. In […]
MEMO TO MYSELF
MEMO TO MYSELF I’ve been advised to write an upbeat end-of-year note – to reinforce the message of my writing, which is that women over fifty are feeling upbeat about themselves and their prospects. And that certainly applies to me. My kids and friends are good; my husband has opened the art gallery of his […]
WHY AREN’T YOU SMILING, HONEY?
Women in Second Adulthood Are Doing Just Fine, Thank You. In a country that gorges on “happy meals” and concludes correspondence with a “smiley face,” it is safe to suggest that happiness has been devalued as a meaningful state of mind. Asking about it is like asking “How are you?” Fine. Nevertheless Marcus Buckingham, who […]
BREAST CANCER – What Women in Second Adulthood Need to Know about the New Guidelines on Mammography Screening
Barbara Glickstein, host of NPR’s “Healthstyles” and Public Health Nurse Executive, on the Current Controversy The release of a report suggesting that women should begin regular mammograms at 50 instead of forty shouldn’t obscure the fact that women over fifty should most definitely be conscientious about scheduling annual mammograms: Here is what I wrote last […]
A Conversation with Suzanne Braun Levine – By Karen Kullgren, The Transition Network
I Love Your Term the Fertile Void… Suzanne Braun Levine has been a hero of mine since age 16, when I was a charter subscriber to Ms. Magazine, where she was the first editor. Just as Ms. had many things to teach me about myself as a woman and a feminist, so Levine decades later […]
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 […]