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.
Sex, Love, And Unicorns: A
Valentine To Intimacy As We Age
By Suzanne Braun Levine,
Huff/Post50
Being in love knows no age limits, and our bodies can experience great sex throughout our lifetime. That is the message of my new book How We Love Now: Sex and the New Intimacy in Second Adulthood. But as I have been talking up that message, I have learned a thing or two about how it is received.
What We Left Behind: Girdles, Silence and Illegal Abortion
By Suzanne Braun Levine,
Huff/Post50
When I went to work at Ms. in 1972, I wore a matching pink skirt and blouse — and a girdle. I had just gotten married and was, therefore, not able to get a bank loan without my husband’s approval. I had given up playing basketball (half-court for girls) in college because no coach or court could be found. And I had had an illegal abortion.
HOW WE LOVE NOW – AND
HOW I LOVED DECEMBER, 2011
By Suzanne Braun Levine
This has been quite a month!
First of all, I finally held in my hands a copy of my new book How We Love Now; it has been eighteen months since I finished it, and at last it is real. The scary part is that it will soon be in the hands of actual readers, and while I am anxious to hear if it resonates with other women, I am less anxious to hear if it doesn’t, which will undoubtedly happen.