“I Feel Like Hugging All the Wonderful Middle-Aged Women I am Coming Across!”
Thank You Suzanne! Dear Suzanne: I just finished reading “Fifty Is the New Fifty” over the weekend. After the first chapter, I put my “to do list” aside to make time to go through it all by Sunday night. I could not believe how everything spoke to me and my experiences so directly. My view […]
YOU CATCH YOUR HUSBAND CHEATING!
DISBELIEF CAN BE AS PARALYTIC AS FEAR…
Toxic Relationships Can Make Us Sick Saying NO Can Save Your Life! The Shock of Discovery… For ‘Anne’, age fifty-one, it began with a misdirected email on her computer…and the shock of discovery in a relationship that seemed fine. I found out through an e-mail on my laptop that he had picked up a woman–or […]
WHY AREN’T YOU SMILING, HONEY?
Women in Second Adulthood Are Doing Just Fine, Thank You. In a country that gorges on “happy meals” and concludes correspondence with a “smiley face,” it is safe to suggest that happiness has been devalued as a meaningful state of mind. Asking about it is like asking “How are you?” Fine. Nevertheless Marcus Buckingham, who […]
BREAST CANCER – What Women in Second Adulthood Need to Know about the New Guidelines on Mammography Screening
Barbara Glickstein, host of NPR’s “Healthstyles” and Public Health Nurse Executive, on the Current Controversy The release of a report suggesting that women should begin regular mammograms at 50 instead of forty shouldn’t obscure the fact that women over fifty should most definitely be conscientious about scheduling annual mammograms: Here is what I wrote last […]
“WHY FIFTY IS THE NEW FIFTY” – Funny, Honest Talk With Women Friends At Barnes & Noble In New York
GLORIA STEINEM, ISABELLA ROSSELLINI, REP. DONNA EDWARDS (D-MD), MODERATOR LESLEY JANE SEYMOUR AND ME. FREE BOOK Fifty is the New Fifty, First 10 Comments I don’t think there is anything more nourishing than an hour spent with a group of bright, funny and honest women friends. I got to do that – big time – […]
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 […]
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 […]