Inventing The Rest of Our Lives

 

Tuesday, January 24, 2006

Update for Suzanne on the radio- today

Suzanne will be on the radio tonight- Tuesday, January 24!
5-6pm EST (2-3 Pacific)

Click here for live streaming: KPFK

Some info on the show:
Good For Life: Experience Talks features guests who are role models for creative aging-- people who think and act in a way that transcends their age and challenges conventions about the purpose and possibilities of later life.

Today Good For Life airs a roundtable with four of the leading minds in the age revolution to talk about how Boomers and Beyonders are changing what it means to grow older in America. In addition to Suzanne Braun Levine, the roundtable participants are:

Abigail Trafford: Washington Post columnist and the author of My Time: Making the Most of the Bonus Decades After 50.

Marc Freedman: Founder and president of the cutting-edge think tank Civic Ventures, which views our aging population as a social asset waiting to be tapped and author of, among other books, Prime Time: How Baby Boomers Will Revolutionize Retirement and Transform America.

James Hollis, PhD: Jungian psychoanalyst/Executive Director of The Jung Educational Center of Houston. Author of The Middle Passage: From Misery to Meaning in Mid-Life and Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Your Life or How to Finally Really Grow Up.

Wednesday, January 18, 2006

Starting a Conversation

Like many of you, I approach a technological adventure such as blogging with trepidation. But I also relish the opportunity to communicate with people I haven't met about our common life experience. If I have learned anything in over thirty years of editing, writing about, and living "women's issues," it is that we do best when we share our stories. In fact, studies are finding that when a woman has the support of a "circle of trust" - women she can count on - the stress-reducing and pleasure-enhancing hormone oxytocin is released.

As I talk to women I meet around the country, I am learning that for many of them, reading groups and book clubs are serving that function. The choice of a title and the discussion it generates invoke the spirit of "conscious-raising" groups of old. I am hoping that my book will generate some of that kind of free-range truth telling and information-sharing. And if so, I'd like to hear about it.

Most of all, I'd like my website to become a meeting place for those who are pioneering this new life experience of Second Adulthood and also for those who aren't there yet, but are - to say the least - curious about what lies ahead. What do they want to know? What have we learned, read, researched, worried about, laughed about that we can share with them - and each other?

I look forward to our conversation.

Monday, January 16, 2006

Suzanne on the radio

Click on the appearances link for a listing of Suzanne's schedule in the upcoming months.

Suzanne will be a part of a roundtable on the Good For Life: Experience Talks show on KPFK radio Tuesday, January 24th from 2:00-3:00 Pacific Time. That's 5-6pm EST.

You can hear it streaming live at Pacifica Radio for Southern California