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 –
AND “65” IS THE NEW SIXTY-FIVE!
My friend Joanne Edgar is a 2009 Trek Women’s Triathlete! She’s in our FIFTY IS THE NEW FIFTY video in her Nia class and “Nia — Why I Keep Coming Back for More…” Now, she is going for it all! FOR THE CHALLENGE, THE FUN . . . AND FOR ME! By Joanne Edgar, #1312 […]
THE URGE TO SHAKE THINGS UP –
WOMEN IN SECOND ADULTHOOD
DO YOU FEEL IT? DO YOU FEAR OR WELCOME CHANGE? Second Adulthood is all about change. It’s about a restlessness that creates a non-specific “itch” to make changes. Life in the Fertile Void, as I call this period, may feel like a free fall; it is alternately exhilarating and terrifying. The changes you choose to […]
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 […]
I’ve finally hit a birthday I don’t want to admit to
When Gloria Steinem famously proclaimed “This is what forty” – and then fifty, sixty, and now seventy – “looks like!” I totally endorsed her message: if each of us stops trying to hide our years, we will liberate each benchmark for all of us. And in all my writing about women’s Second Adulthood I have […]