By Suzanne Braun Levine

When my mother died recently at 94, I felt sad at losing her, but also relieved after several years of slow decline during which I always felt I was one degree of deterioration behind in caring for her. And I felt grateful – grateful to her for the loving and gracious way she took her slow leave, and very grateful to the Hospice team that guided our last months together. Thanks to them, she died at home, smiling to the end.
I …

10-Part Summer Radio Series with Eileen Williams – Feisty Side of Fifty
June 2010 — “Age is NOT a disease! Women like being 50, 60 and 70. We don’t want to go back to Thirty – it was too stressful,” say, Suzanne Braun Levine, author of 50 IS THE NEW FIFTY and Eileen Williams, the founder of the FEISTY SIDE OF FIFTY blog and radio show. The two experts on women’s lives are partnering on a 10-part blog radio series based on the life lessons in Levine’s book.
“The lessons are guidelines,” …

By Ruth Wooden

President, Public Agenda & Chair of the Board, Civic Ventures
There’s a new chapter required in The Etiquette Handbook:  “What to say to someone who is retiring.”
I can’t get over some of the things people have said to me after a routine announcement that I plan to retire as President of a NYC-based nonprofit later this year.  By the time I retire, I will be 64 and will have served more than seven years in this position after a working career of more than …

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We’ve made some changes to our “Feisty Side of Fifty” Radio Series schedule.
Our next LIVE broadcast will be July 7 at 12 Noon (EST):

”EVERY CRISIS CREATES A NEW NORMAL” (Lesson #5)
The remainder of our LIVE programs will be:
July 13 at 12 Noon (EST):
“YOU DO KNOW WHAT YOU WANT TO DO WITH
THE REST OF YOUR LIFE” (Lesson #9)
July 16 at 12 Noon (EST):
‘BOTH’ IS THE NEW ‘EITHER/OR’ (Lesson #10)
July 19 at 12 Noon (EST): A Re-Fresher on…
“FIFTY IS THE NEW FIFTY” (Lesson …

Circle of Trust Summer Favorites!
Why do we read more in the summer?
Maybe because we take long trips that are conducive to long reads. Maybe because we lie in the sun (for short stretches) and the shade for hours. One thing I know: this is the season when we recommend a wider range of books to each other and we read them with the special joy that “summer reading” adds to the prospect of settling in with a friend’s favorites.
I recently read Desert Queen …