Inventing the Rest of Our Lives:
Be a Change Maker
Suzanne Braun Levine
AARP BLOG
There was a time when we couldn’t wait for things to change — for school to end and the summer to begin, to go away to college, to find a job, to find a better job, to find a partner, and perhaps find a better partner, to watch our kids grow up. But now we are just as likely to fear change, especially if we become preoccupied with the unpleasant ones that come with age.
‘Unlikely’ In Love: Why I’m Urging My Friend Anne To Go For Online Dating
Suzanne Braun Levine
Huff/Post 50
My friend Anne just turned 60, and she looks great. She has a great job, the capstone to a great career. She has two kids she adores and two ex-husbands she doesn’t. She is full of energy and curiosity and has tons of friends. But no “boyfriend” (to resurrect a term from the past) to do things with, to have sex with (or not), to laugh with, but not necessarily to get serious with (though that would be nice).
“Aging: America Needs to Address
The Coming Hordes”
By Mark Schwartz
Huff/Post50
My cousin Mark Schwartz is mentioned in How We Love Now as one of the folks who reconnected with a college sweetheart and found happiness at last. Before that, though, he was married and divorced twice and developed a web site – suddenbachelor.com – for midlife men in the same boat. Recently he has become a blogger on Huff/Post50, where I also blog.
His latest article – “Aging: America Needs to Address The Coming Hordes”- is a very strong and thoughtful appeal to start a real conversation about alternative living arrangements for aging parents (and, soon, ourselves)…
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.
THE ANSWER TO AGING WELL – IT TAKES A VILLAGE!
JOIN ME! NOVEMBER 11, 2010 THE NATIONAL VILLAGE GATHERING, PHILADELPHIA, PA We know it works for children. And, now we are learning being part of a village makes aging easier too! Imagine a village where members volunteer to help each other with some of the daily tasks that become a little more difficult as we […]
“READY FOR LIFE’S ENCORE PERFORMANCES” Baby Boomers in
Second Careers
Civic Ventures and Encore.org in the News – Again! Ever since the June, 2009 White House hosted an event salute to social innovators who are in their Encore Careers, Civic Ventures www.civicventures.org and Encore.org have been in the news. On March 3, 2010 The New York Times (by Elizabeth Pope) reported on “Matching Life Experience […]