Articles tagged with: women
Second Adulthood »
Traveling the country and meeting women who are inventing the rest of their lives is the best tonic for the front page of most newspapers these days. The headlines all seem to be about greed, duplicity, cravenness, selfishness, meanness and what Big Daddy labeled “mendacity” (in “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof”).
The women I meet, on the other hand, radiate humor, courage, generosity of spirit and purse, community and optimism. They are forthright and bold.
Recently in Phoenix, over 150 women came to hear me and ended up listening to each …
Second Adulthood »
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 …
