HOW WE LOVE NOW – Women Talk About Intimacy After Fifty
Thelma Reese, ComingofAge.org – “Through research, her own journalistic prowess, and the engaging stories of many women, Levine etches a reassuring picture of the many forms love can take in the lives of women.”
Marc Freedman, founder of Encore.org – “She comes to teach us that we have an opportunity to revamp the script of our life beyond the middle years – in time for millions of boomers surging into this ill-charted territory.
Ellyn Cohen, Rockland, NY Jewish Family Service – “Suzanne’s messages about women in second adulthood are wise, witty, and hopeful. After hearing her, we know that the best is yet to come!”
A Manual for Encore Careers
by Richard Eisenberg
NextAvenue.org
“The new ‘Encore Career Handbook’ is a terrific guide that shows you how to make a difference while making a living. If anyone can figure out how to overcome obstacles at the start of your second act, I think it’s Marci Alboher,” says Richard Eisenberg from PBS’ Next Avenue.”
Female Friendship–The True Gift of the Season
by Mary Eileen Williams
FeistySideofFifty.com
By the time we reach 50, we’ve gone through a lot. We’ve lost loved ones to death and through the breaking of relationship ties. We’ve endured injured pride, damaged self-esteem, and crushing disappointments. We have sustained significant blows to the ego through painful experiences of rejection. And we’ve seen our nest empty, watching our children build their own lives while our loved ones (and we) grow older. We need our friends now more than ever before!
A Touch of Mothering for a “Mother’s Helper”
by Karin Lippert
MotheringintheMiddle.com
Long before Ann Martin wrote her bestselling series The Baby-Sitters Club® I was a baby-sitter on Long Island at age 12. Looking back, I continue to be amazed that a family – a mother – would trust me to take care of three children [one an infant] at that age. It was the ‘50s and I was paid 50 cents an hour in a far more innocent time. I loved the family, enjoyed the kids. I also remember I tried one of the mom’s Lucky Strike cigarettes – cough, cough! Not good.
“Gray Hair: 25 Women Who Rock Silver Locks”
You might say it’s the time of year for silver belles. Vogue’s Vicki Woods, a journalist who has written cover stories for the fashion mag on Meryl Streep, Angelina Jolie and Sarah Jessica Parker, is the latest high-profile figure to go gray. She wrote about her decision in a recent post:
Meet a 2012 Purpose Prize Winner: Judy Cockerton, Treehouse Foundation
Encore.org, second acts
for the greater good
A news story about a 5-month-old boy living in foster care who’d been kidnapped right out of his crib – never to be found – shook Judy Cockerton. She thought about all the other kids in foster care, the ones no one hears about until something awful happens.