LOVE, SEX, INTIMACY…
A New Novel from Jane Adams
A year or so ago, I read the manuscript of a novel about a woman like us - turning 60, facing career challenges, dealing with uncooperative children, redefining love- AND sex - and getting to know her authentic self. Charlotte “Sugar” Kane is a great character and very, very funny in that wry way we enjoy in our friends.
The only problem was that the author, my friend Jane Adams, couldn’t find a publisher interested in fiction about midlife women, so she finally …

5 Organizations that Support Fathers & Families

In 2000, my book “Father Courage: What Happens When Men Put Family First” was published. It was the result of my exploration into the uncharted territory of “shared parenting.”
There were pioneers everywhere, but they were few and far between. As I wrote then,
“My first clue was the backpacks…Like the moms and baby-sitters trudging by, they seemed blissfully oblivious to giant rabbit or Mickey Mouse ears rising from behind their own. These were dads who knew–knew their own kids in that …

DOING WHAT DAD WANTS TAKES A NEW TWIST!
Both our children are far away this year, so Father’s Day won’t be about the whole family “Doing What Dad Wants.” But it most definitely won’t be a joyless day. Instead, for my husband Bob and me it will be a celebration of “Dad’s Amazing New Project” – the BlueStone Gallery in Milford, PA (www.bluestonegallerymilford.com) which both our kids love.
We will be spending the afternoon where “Dad is Doing What He Wants.” In the past year, my husband has envisioned, brought to …

My Conversation with Sister Marie Pappas on Sirius Satellite Radio
Yes, I still love the radio. But, I had almost forgotten what a pleasure it is to have an extended conversation with an interesting and “interested” interviewer until this recent book promotion tour. I had the opportunity to talk to women and men radio hosts across the country from my home - NO make-up needed! Pajamas optional!
One of the interviews was from a studio on satellite radio. Sister Marie Pappas is on Sirius Satellite Radio along with Martha Stewart, Oprah …

Age is not a Disease on the Stage
The number of accomplished women over forty currently on Broadway from Allison Janney 49 to Angela Lansbury 83 - are proving that: Age is not a Disease. In fact, we are simply better at living than ever before!
As we get older, we are focused and playing to our strengths.
Janney will celebrate her next birthday singing and dancing in “9 to 5.” She told reporter Patricia Cohen - “It’s kind of cool to turn 50 on Broadway.”
It’s way cool and this year, lots of …

From Singing Sensation Susan Boyle, 47, to Maria Amelia Lopez who was at 97 The World’s Oldest Blogger - Women Rule on the Web!
“Blogging took 20 years off my life,” said Maria Amelia Lopez, the world’s oldest blogger who died at age 97 on May 20th. She had a worldwide following and said the Internet had changed her life. “My ‘blogeuriños’ are the joy of my life. I never knew there was so much goodness in the world,” she said. She inspired many her own age to become bloggers, and …

A Message For Mother’s Day!
Lesson Number Six in FIFTY IS THE NEW FIFTY is ”Do Unto Yourself as You Have Been doing Unto Others.” What that means is simply pay attention to – nurture – yourself the way you do those you love. It does not mean withholding from others or being selfish. Doing unto yourself is about adding yourself to your own “to-do” list. Being self-FULL!
Enjoy Mother’s Day!
Share our card with every nurturing soul you are lucky enough to have in your life.
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“Do Unto Yourself…
As You Have Been Doing …

And Why That is the Good News!
Recently there was quite a tizzy over two photographs of women in their forties who looked pretty damn hot. First, 43-year-old supermodel Cindy Crawford appeared in classic calendar-pose wearing nothing but well-placed foam in the pages of Allure Magazine. Then, 49-year-old actress and Jenny Craig spokeswoman Valerie Bertinelli put on a bikini for People magazine. Both of them looked great. Both of their bodies looked not a day over 30.
The message that many took from this was that they had achieved a break-through for …

We Can Only Learn from Each Other
When the first copy of my new book FIFTY IS THE NEW FIFTY arrived from my publisher, my emotions were mixed. On the one hand the book embodies the long-awaited launch of my ideas into the public conversation. On the other hand, it makes me vulnerable to the public’s response. Curiously, though, I feel somewhat less vulnerable this time out than when INVENTING THE REST OF OUR LIVES was published several years ago.
This is due in part to the fact that I was …

You’re Not Who You Were, Only Older - My “first post” from December, 2005
My first step into Second Adulthood was backward off a ninety-foot cliff. On impulse, I had signed up for an Outward Bound program and found myself poised in full rappelling gear—harness, helmet, and guide rope—to walk down the face of what could just as well have been my twelve-story apartment building. The terror was pure. I was only mildly distracted by the reassuring words of our leader: “Fear is the appropriate response here. After all, evolution doesn’t …