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 […]
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 […]
“SUGAR TIME” – THE BEST BEACH READ OF SUMMER 2009!
LOVE, SEX, INTIMACY… A New Novel from Jane Adams A year or so ago, I read the manuscript of a novel about a woman like us – turning 60, facing career challenges, dealing with uncooperative children, redefining love- AND sex – and getting to know her authentic self. Charlotte “Sugar” Kane is a great character […]
ARE YOU FIFTY? ARE YOU HAPPY?
HOW IMPORTANT ARE HORMONES?
STAY TUNED!
My Conversation with Sister Marie Pappas on Sirius Satellite Radio Yes, I still love the radio. But, I had almost forgotten what a pleasure it is to have an extended conversation with an interesting and “interested” interviewer until this recent book promotion tour. I had the opportunity to talk to women and men radio hosts […]
Welcome to the New Home for Women in Second Adulthood
We’re Celebrating…Join Us! With the launch of this website we are celebrating the new home for Women in Second Adulthood along with the publication of my new book: FIFTY IS THE NEW FIFTY: 10 LIFE LESSONS FOR WOMEN IN SECOND ADULTHOOD. In my books, I have collected anecdotes, insights, and wisdom from women at a […]
Turning the Page
We Can Only Learn from Each Other When the first copy of my new book FIFTY IS THE NEW FIFTY arrived from my publisher, my emotions were mixed. On the one hand the book embodies the long-awaited launch of my ideas into the public conversation. On the other hand, it makes me vulnerable to the […]
Inventing the Rest of Our Lives: Women in Second Adulthood
You’re Not Who You Were, Only Older – My “first post” from December, 2005 My first step into Second Adulthood was backward off a ninety-foot cliff. On impulse, I had signed up for an Outward Bound program and found myself poised in full rappelling gear—harness, helmet, and guide rope—to walk down the face of what […]
Traditions and transitions
“Tradition! Tradition!” sings Tevya in the rousing testimonial to rites of passage from “Fidler on the Roof.” Traditions mark transitions. They create community around significant life experiences. And force us to pause and take stock. Indeed, many of us have tried to initiate new traditions to commemorate neglected but major passages – such as a […]
“Good! Now Sit Down”
I recently attended a really terrific and very interesting luncheon. The conversation was fresh and informed (we were talking politics, of course) and the women were smart and funny. Yet, after the coffee, but well before anyone else seemed ready to get up, I was grumbling to myself: “I gotta get out of here! It’s […]
Not showing up
I used to have a fantasy gift that I hoped someone would give me– one canceled lunch per season. For years I gratefully received news that someone else couldn’t show up for something. It never occurred to me that I could initiate the gift of needed time or rescheduling to accommodate other priorities. I always […]