S-E-X
Because I am working on a new book about the unprecedented stage of new life that women are discovering, I have an excuse to indulge in my favorite pastime: talking to women. And because our conversations get real pretty fast – even if we’ve only just met – I have heard a lot about sex […]
Who cares?
I have just finished screening purposals for the Purpose Prize, a cash award to be given by the terrific organization called Civic Ventures that promotes civic engagement on the part of people over fifty. The entries I saw were all impressive and I wish they all could win, but what really struck me was the […]
Some juicy statistics and studies
Like most of you I am sure, I keep a file of juicy tidbits and quotes picked up from random reading. I especially love it when I find something that confirms what we know, but can’t prove about ourselves. Here are some recent favorites: The increasing use of both sides of the brain for cognitive […]
My trip to Arizona
Traveling the country and meeting women who are inventing the rest of their lives is the best tonic for the front page of most newspapers these days. The headlines all seem to be about greed, duplicity, cravenness, selfishness, meanness and what Big Daddy labeled “mendacity” (in “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof”). The women I […]
Starting a conversation
Like many of you, I approach a technological adventure such as blogging with trepidation. But I also relish the opportunity to communicate with people I haven’t met about our common life experience. If I have learned anything in over thirty years of editing, writing about, and living “women’s issues,” it is that we do best […]