The Place of Poetry in My Life – The Voices You Recognize as Your Own
By Suzanne Braun Levine
This is National Poetry Month, an opportunity for all of us to consider the place of poetry in our lives. When I first began to read poetry, I was in those years when my feelings were confused and confusing, and I felt I was under water. I found that poetry validated those feelings, or at least that confusion. The big themes were loss, longing, loneliness, and Love (yes, with a capital L).
Celebrate the Special Holiday Just for YOU!
By Mary Eileen Williams, Founder
Feisty Side of Fifty
There’s no official vacation day, very little media coverage, and you won’t even find it on the calendar—but this holiday commemorates a movement that’s made a huge impact on our lives both personally and professionally. March 8th is International Women’s History Day.
OUR HISTORY, OURSELVES – How to Celebrate International Women’s Day
By Suzanne Braun Levine
March 8 commemorates the one hundredth anniversary of the official recognition of the world’s women. Over that century American women got the vote, became economic entities, and were granted equal rights in most spheres. And we found our voices. We have been speaking up and speaking out about the conditions and experiences of our lives, and as a result much of our story has emerged from the obscurity that history has relegated us to.
Feisty Women Wear Red!
By Mary Eileen Williams, Founder
Feisty Side of Fifty
There’s one special club that embodies our celebrated joie de vivre and legendary spunk, The Red Hat Society, and this remarkable organization has become the largest women’s social club in the world.
SECOND WEDDING: Hope Springs Eternal
By Joyce Ellen Weinstein
During the late 1960’s and into the 70’s I was a commercial textile designer working in the garment center in New York City to support myself and two children.
My boss at that time, the woman in white, was getting married for the second time.
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.
THIS IS WHAT “70” LOOKS LIKE…
Celebrating Robin Morgan’s 70th Birthday…
This wonderful photo of Gloria Steinem, Robin Morgan and me was taken by Jenny Warburg at a party we and her son Blake Morgan threw for Robin’s seventieth birthday at Bob’s and my apartment….
A VALENTINE TO THE…
‘NICENESS FACTOR’
By Suzanne Braun Levine
Valentine’s Day celebrates loving and being loved. But, for much of our lives, the festivities commemorated a kind of Romance that our own relationships could only approximate – a sticky sweetness that the classic heart-shaped box of candy symbolized.
COURTNEY MARTIN: A New Generation of Activists
Over coffee on a winter afternoon, I spoke with Courtney Martin for Encore.org about how to go about making the world a better place.
Courtney Martin is the author of “Do It Anyway: The New Generation of Activists.” She speaks to her generation in her writings and her blogs on Feministing.com (“young feminists blogging, organizing, kicking ass”). And she speaks about her generation to older activists who are trying to figure out where all the political flowers have gone.
“WOMEN OVER 50: Make Your Story Heard!”
By Mary Eileen Williams, founder
Feisty Side of Fifty/ Baby Boomer Women
I always enjoy my conversations with Mary Eileen Williams on “Feisty Side of Fifty Radio.” She is an enthusiastic interviewer and friend of women over 50.
I am sharing her post on our most recent program because she again shows what a feisty supporter she is on my behalf and the subject of my next book about love, sex and intimacy in second adulthood…