“Exclusive”: Enough Mystiques to Go
Around — And This One Is Masculine
By Suzanne Braun Levine, Women’s Media Center In 1963 Betty Friedan’s Feminine Mystique identified The Problem That Has No Name—a soul-destroying malaise and sense of uselessness that beset the woman who had bought into the “mystique” of perfect wife, homemaker, and mother. Because she wasn’t happy, she thought something was wrong with her. The second […]
“IMAGINE THE SOUND OF PEACE”
Shohola Bells – By David Greenbaum
David Greenbaum,
Potter & Co-Founder
The BlueStone Gallery
“I strive to create pieces of enduring beauty,” says the renowned potter, David Greenbaum. “Clay is a glorious, humbling, sensuous, messy and most marvelous medium of expression.”
Finding Work After 55! It’s
Easier Than You May Think
Mary Eileen Williams, author
“Land the Job You Love!”
One third of job seekers are now over 55!
How are we doing?
Isabel Allende
“What is truer than truth? Answer: The Story.”– Jewish saying, quoted by Isabel Allende, author and activist, discussing women, creativity, feminism and passion in a TED Talk. [March 2007, see video below and more at http://www.ted.com.
Diana Nyad, 61:
“It’s a disappointment, but not a failure.”, after she swam nearly 55 miles over 29 hours in open water and had to end her second effort to swim from Cuba to Key West. On Facebook yesterday, she wrote: “’Fear’ is a big word. ‘Fearless’ is an even bigger word.” http://diananyad.com/blog.
From Doris Lessing…
“It isn’t either or at all, it’s and, and, and, and, and.”
From Suzanne Braun Levine…
“The miracle of now is how our life-long either/or way of seeing the world is morphing into a both/and outlook.” Lesson 10: ‘Both’ Is the New ‘Either/Or’ “50 Is the New Fifty: 10 Life Lessons for Women in Second Adulthood
THE NEW MALE MYSTIQUE &
ONGOING WORK-FAMILY
CONFLICT – ON FEISTY SIDE
OF FIFTY RADIO, AUG. 5
FEISTY SIDE OF FIFTY RADIO (LIVE) Host: Mary Eileen Williams Topic: “Suzanne Braun Levine: The Male Mystique” Date: Friday August, 5 – 11:30AM ET Phone: 1- (347) – 884-8117 “Suzanne Braun Levine: The Male Mystique” “Our feisty friend, Suzanne Braun Levine joins us once again to share her thoughts on issues, impacting our lives. This […]
“GLORIA STEINEM:
In Her Own Words,
HBO August 15, 2011
“Gloria: In Her Own Words” – 60 min. documentary HBO Premiere, August 15. Time: 9:00PM ET/MT (*with repeats throughout August). “TCA HBO Day: Gloria Steinem Talks, True Blood’s Alan Ball Stays Put, Final Entourage Season” The annual Television Critics Association press tour is under way this week: […]
”EXPAND YOUR HORIZONS”
JOIN THE TRANSITION NETWORK,
NOV. 4-6 2011, WASHINGTON DC
JUDY WOODRUFF, KEYNOTE
News Flash – Judy Woodruff, PBS NewsHour Senior Correspondent will be the keynote speaker. “I’m coming to be part of a vibrant organization for women like me” –Luanne Mullin, Bay Area “Expand Your Horizons” with The Transition Network November 4 to 6, Washington DC Early Registration Discount Deadline: August 15 Join […]