The Next Frontier – Care-getting!
By Suzanne Braun Levine
With your kids finally leaving home, your vision of the years ahead beginning to come into focus, and your relationships narrowing down to a precious few, you are just beginning to explore what it means to care for yourself –– when the call to care-giving comes.
Parents who had been taking care of each other suddenly lose it; partners who had been mighty oaks crack; friends who had been there for you suddenly need your support; kids in crisis show up on the doorstep.
Women, Power, and the New Fifty!
By Mary Eileen Williams
Founder, Feisty Side of Fifty
Boomers are the first generation of women to openly claim our rights to personal power and parity with men since the decline of the Goddess cultures. The first feminists fought long and hard for women’s suffrage. But, once they got the vote, many seemed to lose steam and returned to stoke the home fires.
“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…
JOIN ME FOR A VERY SPECIAL DAY: THE 2010 PAGES & PLACES BOOK FESTIVAL! SCRANTON, PA – SATURDAY, OCT. 2nd
JOIN ME FOR A VERY SPECIAL EVENT: THE 2010 PAGES & PLACES BOOK FESTIVAL! SCRANTON, PA – SATURDAY, OCT. 2nd Join me at the 2010 Pages & Places Book Festival, Scranton’s celebration of books and the city on Saturday October 2nd. I will be at the Book Expo and on the Panel: “FROM FRONTLINES TO […]
WHAT MY CIRCLE OF TRUST IS READING THIS SUMMER!
Summer Reading is still at the top of our list of things to do now….
APRIL AND OLIVER by Tess Callahan is on my list. The story of two people who grew up like brother and sister and what happens when they are drawn back together after a family tragedy. The writing is beautiful and insightful; the characters are complex and surprising; and the plot is not what you think.
Retirement Ambivalence: Who’s Afraid of Getting Off the Career Track?
By Ruth Wooden President, Public Agenda & Chair of the Board, Civic Ventures There’s a new chapter required in The Etiquette Handbook: “What to say to someone who is retiring.” I can’t get over some of the things people have said to me after a routine announcement that I plan to retire as President of […]
A NEW CAT IN MY LIFE
Tito (short for Gatito, little cat) is the newest addition to our household. My daughter found him in an alley in Buenos Aires, where she has been living for the past two years. He was a half-starved kitten, infested with fleas. She took him in, dealt with the fleas, and now he is a feisty […]
JOIN SUZANNE & EILEEN FOR A 10-PART SERIES ON “FEISTY SIDE OF FIFTY RADIO!”
JOIN SUZANNE & EILEEN FOR A 10-PART SERIES ON “FEISTY SIDE OF FIFTY RADIO!” The program that celebrates Baby Boomer Women who are totally transforming the spirit and style of aging! www.blogtalkradio.com/feisty-side-of-fifty **UPCOMING LIVE Radio Broadcasts** (LIVE BROADCASTS – Noon EST) June 21 YOUR MARRIAGE CAN MAKE IT (Lesson #8) June 29 EVERY CRISIS CREATES A NEW […]
VIVmag: “Frankly, We’re a Little Tired of Hearing People Say Things Like…”
New Book Proclaims ‘50 Is the New Fifty’ VIVMag, says: “Frankly, we’re a little tired of hearing people say things like ‘30 is the new 20’ and ‘40 is the new 30.’ So we love the title of Suzanne Braun Levine’s new book: “50 Is the New Fifty.” The first editor of Ms. magazine, Levine […]
“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 […]