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 …

Internet Intimacy is New for Me
When my kids were younger and I wanted to have a difficult conversation with one of them, I would wait until we were driving alone in the car. I found that it was easier for me to broach the subject when my gaze was fixed on the road, and it was more likely I would get some feedback if my son or daughter didn’t have to make eye contact either. In that circumstance, the avoidance of eye contact fostered intimacy.
But most of the time intimacy …

Grown-Ups Dance like Kids!

Joanne Edgar – editor, writer, communications consultant

Nia is for everyone!  It is a fitness and lifestyle practice that any one, at any age or level of fitness, can do. It’s never boring, so you keep coming back.
I first stumbled into a Nia class at my local Y, after I turned 50. I didn’t know what it was, but I was curious because I heard fun music and saw people who were actually laughing while they were dancing and working out. By the time Suzanne interviewed me for …

“I AM BECOMING MORE RADICAL WITH AGE.”
– Gloria Steinem
To celebrate Gloria’s 75th Birthday and to honor her unique and transformational work as an organizer and activist in the women’s and broader social justice movements, the Ms. Foundation for Women, Inc. has established The Gloria Steinem Fund for Organizing.
Gloria has traveled the United States and the world, for more than 30 years, igniting powerful new connections between women across race and class that have inspired so many to discover and let loose their own rebellious, activist selves.
“Once I began to listen …