The Sacred Privilege of Sharing Parenthood Across Generations
That struggle to balance family life with our professional and personal lives doesn’t end. If we could peer into the future to see all the heavy lifting, sleepless nights, and empty wallets, would we commit to parenthood? I quickly answered my rhetorical question with a resounding yes.
She Writes, She Reads, She Changes the World
Our She Writes Press retreat felt like a culmination of publisher, Brooke Warner’s work, as one hundred and thirty SWP authors gathered to support and encourage each other. Writing is hard and isolating but it’s fundamental to who I am and how I choose to live my days. Sharing this strangely compelling life choice with other like-minded women felt liberating. I luxuriated in the safety of the retreat space.
Where Words Linger and Art Speaks: My time at the Obama Center
A visit to the newly opened Obama Center in Chicago was inspiring. The power of words and art permeates the center.
When the Search Itself Becomes the Gift
A day spent conducting a scavenger hunt with my grandchildren hit a lie sweet spot for me.
Pausing to Smell the Peonies
my spirit was enriched for a few minutes each day as I walked past these pretty pink peonies. My Second Half of Life mission is to be aesthetically nourished as often as possible
Sometimes You Have to get Your Feet Dirty
Echoes of Love and Legacy: The Sacred Roots of Music in the African American Church
The program billed the event as “A night of Worship” featuring The Howard University Gospel Choir. The venue was the Second Baptist Church in Evanston where the pews overflowed with believers. What I found myself worshiping, however, was the music.
Finding Your Sass After Seventy
I decided to document my move from Baldwin Park Orlando to Evanston Illinois in a series entitled, “Finding Your Sass After Seventy”.
Echoes of the Past: How Music Rekindles Forgotten Memories
My husband and I went to see the band America perform at the Dr. Phillips Performing Arts Center in Orlando. I’m such an NPR-o-phile that I rarely listen to tunes in the car and I forget how evocative music can be. Marcel Proust’s tastebuds transported him on a journey through his memory back to his youth after biting into a madeleine. My ear served as my sensory guide as America’s music prompted flashbacks to the 1970s when I was newly graduated from high school.
Addicted to my Pretty Pink Bicycle
I have resumed my relationship with my bicycle following a six-week interruption due to a concussion I sustained from a previous biking accident. Despite the objections of concerned friends who have banned me from biking, I’m back in the saddle again.
Senior Citizen Splash Zone: Kayaking Becomes An Extreme Sport for the Over-70 Crowd
Kayaking at 72 on the Lake of Egypt was a blast but it wasn’t easy. But I was proud of myself for trying and not giving up. I think inviting experiences that challenge us is good for our aging brain and self image.
Barging Through Time’s Wall
“We live in houses bricked up with seconds and minutes, weekends and New Year’s Days, and I never went outside until I died, because there was no other door. Now I know that I could have walked through walls.”
Lake Michigan: No Salt, No Sharks, No Worries
While my geographic sabbatical has been good for my headspace it has also literally injured my head.
A three month sabbatical in Evanston is just the geographic diversion I needed for my headspace.
Has Anyone Here Seen my Old Friend Bobby? I just looked around and he was gone.
the tribute song, “Abraham, Martin, and John,” performed by Dion DiMucci references the assassinations of these three icons, as well as Bobby Kennedy during the turbulent summer of 1968. While my dear friend Bob Leventhal did not die in such a dramatic fashion, the loss of his presence in my life feels incredibly dramatic.
The Economic and Retirement Prospects for Women Over Fifty
Traditional notions about retirement are changing from the concept of a complete stop at a prescribed age to working past retirement age for financial reasons.
Getting Older Means You Get a Lot of Bad News
The Patient Health Care Portal can scare you to death, and sometimes the information is incorrect.
Do Lady Boomers Want a Woman to be Elected President in the United States?
2025 national survey of women over 50 finds Lady Boomers may be the proverbial wrinkle in the political ointment
A Psychologist Explains How the Baby Boomer Generation is Redefinging Aging for Women
Enjoyed being interviewed by Dr. Diane Sanford for an article in The Good Trade about redefining aging.
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