Permanent Parenthood – A New Life Stage?
by Jane Adams, Ph.D.
Author, Life Coach
My friend Jane Adams has written a terrific blog about an experience I know personally – having a grown child live at home. She has some enlightening statistics and insights.
“Reinventing Love, Relationships, and Intimacy in Second Adulthood”
The Transition Network
Washington, DC/June 5th
A conversation with Suzanne Braun Levine on “Reinventing Love, Relationships, and Intimacy in Second Adulthood” is being sponsored by the DC Chapter of The Transition Network and Civic Ventures, a nonprofit think tank on Boomers, work and social purpose, that publishes Encore.org for people interested in encore careers, jobs that combine personal meaning, continued income and social impact.
A Day To Say Goodbye To Old Grudges:
Untangling Mother-Daughter Ties
Suzanne Braun Levine
Huff/Post50
Like many women in midlife, I find Mother’s Day as much a reminder of a fraught relationship as a celebration of motherhood.
Even if we are not caring for our mothers, and even if we rarely spend time with them — even, as in my case, they are no longer alive — the emotional status of our relationship with them is a major factor in our ongoing reinvention. The intimacy between a woman and the woman who gave birth to her has its own unique mix of physical, psychological and gender forces within each of them.
Why Women My Age Are Reading
’50 Shades of Grey’
Suzanne Braun Levine,
Huff/Post50
Fifty Shades of Grey by E.L. James is number one on the New York Times best-seller list — an unusual slot for a pornographic novel. And it has gotten there by word of mouth. Have you heard about it? Have you read it? Are you thinking you might? In my conversations with women all over the country in recent weeks, the answers are variations of yes.
Not that the plot matters, but it’s about an innocent college student and an incredibly attractive and very rich man, who also keeps a bondage chamber.
“Older Women Take on the Challenges of
Life, Love and Sex”
Marcia G. Yerman
Huff/Post50
Three books that fall on this continuum which overlap, while still standing solidly in their own sphere are:
Parenthood: What’s A Couple Of Kids
Between Friends?
Suzanne Braun Levine,
Huff/Post50
A few weeks ago my 25-year-old daughter mentioned that the first of her friends was pregnant. “It’s weird,” she said. To which I replied, “I know. In my experience, having a friend get pregnant was much more disruptive to the friendship than having one get married.”
I was reminded of that conversation when I saw the new movie Friends With Kids. Charming as it is, I was disappointed that the movie didn’t really address the stresses between friends who never have kids and those who do. I have been both.
Ms. magazine’s 40th Anniversary
Let the Celebrations Begin!
The Clayman Institute for
Gender Research
By Suzanne Braun Levine
This year is the 40th Anniversary Year of Ms. Magazine. Hard to believe, and for those of us involved in that history, it is very moving to remember those early years. The birthday events began at The Clayman Institute for Gender Research at Stanford University on January 26th as part of a four-month long celebration of feminism.
The Conversation Continues:
Suzanne Braun Levine
Suzanne Braun Levine,
TEDxWomen.org
Last December in New York City, Suzanne Braun Levine captivated the TEDxWomen community with her frank, humorous and insightful words on womanhood and aging. Ms. Levine has one of those stops-me-in-my-tracks resumes: the first editor of Ms. magazine; an editor of the Columbia Journalism Review; a producer of the Peabody Award-winning documentary She’s Nobody’s Baby: American Women in the Twentieth Century; a web maven, with a thoughtful and resource-filled website of her own, who blogs on many popular sites; and the author of numerous books, including the recently released How We Love Now: Sex and Intimacy in Second Adulthood.
Wanting to hear more from Ms. Levine, we asked her to answer a few questions to share with the TEDxWomen community. We’re thrilled she said yes!
Join Pat Wynn Brown & Me
TTN/Columbus, OH, April 4
Suzanne Braun Levine &
Pat Wynn Brown of
“Hair Theater”
The Transition Network special event in Columbus, Ohio promises to be a really fun evening. The group has asked Pat Wynn Brown, creator of the “Hair Theater” and an Ohio Treasure, to join me on the program. We’re having a conversation about “Reinventing Intimacy After 50” and then, the audience will have time to share stories and ask questions.
TTN/JCC/LONG ISLAND
Special Event, April 3
“Reinventing Intimacy,
Love and Sex After Fifty!”
The Transition Network of Long Island in partnership with Sid Jacobson JCC present, Suzanne Braun Levine, author of How We Love Now: Sex and the New Intimacy in Second Adulthood.