Age Power: Why Should Celebrating Getting Older Be Wasted On The Young?
Suzanne Braun Levine
Huff/Post50
“To deny your age is to deny yourself,” Oprah said recently. Amen to that. Conversely, admitting your age is empowering not only yourself but every woman who is made to feel less valuable because she is over forty. Or fifty. Or seventy.
My mother denied her age all her life. She was beautiful and youthful-lookyouthing until the day she died at 94. By then she had shaved so many years off her age that she was publicly young enough to be my big sister. But just imagine if women of all ages had the facts and could see how glorious 94 can look.
Movies About the Second Half of Life:
What’s Behind the Trend?
By Stefanie Weiss,
Encore.org
All of a sudden, there are movies about life beyond midlife. The – starring Judi Dench, Maggie Smith, Tom Wilkinson and Bill Nighy – has quickly become a critical and box office hit.
“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)…
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.
“FIFTY IS THE NEW FIFTY” The Paperback Edition from Plume!
“A Circle of Trust Reader’s Guide” One of the fun things authors get to do for the paperback edition of their book is work with the publisher on a Reader’s Guide for Book Clubs. The publication date for “Fifty is the New Fifty: 10 Life Lessons for Women in Second Adulthood” is March 30th. In […]
“MY CIRCLE OF TRUST BOOK CLUB” Women Love Books & Want to Share Them
ALSO, AN UPDATE ON BOOKS BY FRIENDS Like all of you, I have a circle of friends that I try to connect with on a regular basis. For me, it’s often over lunch. I look forward to those dates with a real hunger – for the intimacy, the chance to chronicle our lives to ourselves […]
‘A Revolutionary Gathering’ of Social Entrepreneurs – The Purpose Prize Summit
MEET ANN HIGDON 2009 PURPOSE PRIZE WINNER “The Purpose Prize gathering is revolutionary,” said Ellen Goodman the newspaper columnist and herself, the winner of a Pulitzer Prize. “I am looking at you as my mentors,” she told the audience in her keynote address at the recent Purpose Prize Summit. I have to agree. It was […]
MEET “THE PURPOSE PRIZE WINNERS” – Encore Careers & Civic Ventures Honor Change-Makers Over 60!
BRINGING EXPERIENCE TO SOCIAL INNOVATION CHANGES EVERYTHING In a culture that often seems to thrive more on “creating” villains than honoring heroes, it is especially rewarding to report on people who are changing the world. THE PURPOSE PRIZE – announced by Encore Careers and Civic Ventures – celebrates and honors people over 60 who are […]