YOU GOTTA HAVE GIRLFRIENDS –
My Circle of Trust on the Internet!
A Mini Blog Tour
For My Ebook
You Gotta Have Girlfriends is a traveling “circle of trust “- of love and support – on the Internet shared by my girlfriends. Join me to celebrate our post-fifty posses and ourselves on the blogs and websites of my pioneering girlfriends. — Suzanne
“Suzanne Levine takes us beyond the frontier of our own expectations and into a new and hope-filled stage of life.”
— Gloria Steinem
Celebrate Your Girlfriends Today!
You Gotta Have Girlfriends!
by Suzanne Braun Levine
Huff/Post50
My first ebook – You Gotta Have Girlfriends – A Post-Fifty Posse Is Good For Your Health – came out this week and I’m sharing the news on blogs, Facebook and Twitter. Huff/Post50 has a feature that I’ve written – with a slide show of personal photos, movie clips and famous quotes on friendship. I hope you will visit the page, and Comment, Tweet and Share it – widely!
Mary Eileen Williams to Lead Take Action Workshop!
By Ann Voorhees Baker
Women at Woodstock 2013
So happy to be able to share this great news on my site! I love my radio programs with Eileen on “Feisty Side of Fifty” radio and am glad I will seeing her the West Coast (July 28-31,2013) and East Coast (October 6-9, 2013) Women at Woodstock retreats for women 50 (or so) & up — Suzanne Braun Levine
“Gray Hair: 25 Women Who Rock Silver Locks”
You might say it’s the time of year for silver belles. Vogue’s Vicki Woods, a journalist who has written cover stories for the fashion mag on Meryl Streep, Angelina Jolie and Sarah Jessica Parker, is the latest high-profile figure to go gray. She wrote about her decision in a recent post:
The Ms. “Family” 40th Birthday Party – Celebrating Sisterhood, Wonder Woman and Why We [Women] Won the Election!
by Karin Lippert
Huff/Post50
“To this day, it’s one of the ways I define myself: I worked at Ms. It’s my badge of pride,”
Hagar Scher
We came together to celebrate our collective pride and three generations of connections as a “family.” To remember the conversations we started with each other that became articles, sparked a dialogue with our readers – with women everywhere – and transformed our lives and theirs.
Unfriending Is Hard To Do,
But Toxic Friendships Take Their Toll
By Suzanne Braun Levine
Huff/Post50
Like most women my age, as the years accumulate I get more and more selective about who I consider real friends, while at the same time, more and more committed to those who form my “circle of trust.” The trouble is that paring down my inner circle can be hurtful, guilt-making, and very hard to initiate.
I practice the “drift” technique — fewer calls and dates, slower responses to e-mails — hoping that distance and silence will dissolve the tie.
Seeing Charlie’s Quilt Up Close…
When I got to the end of the Mall where the stage is, my friend and AIDS activist Sean Strub was there waiting to greet me. So was Jennifer Morton of POZ, who had finally managed to find out where Charlie’s quilt was; what’s more she had brought it to the front of the whole exhibit, right at the stage. What a doll!
It more beautiful than it looks in pictures; there is so much more artistic detail. It was lovely to be able to look at it up close and among so many touching and imaginative panels.
A Quilt For Charlie: Remembering
My Brother Who Died Of AIDS
By Suzanne Braun Levine,
Huff/Post50, GAY VOICES
When my brother Charlie died of AIDS in February 1985, the epidemic had barely begun. The disease, first reported in 1981, had come out of nowhere, and no one had any idea what caused it or how to treat it. But there was plenty of uninformed panic and prejudice.
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.
“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)…