Women Over 50: What’s Important To You?

Women Over 50: What’s Important To You?

Women Over 50: What’s important to you? When you read that question, what’s the first thing you think of? Maybe it’s your home, your children, your spouse or partner, your kitty, your work. It could be any number of things. Has the answer changed as you’ve gotten...
Women Over 50: Has Someone Given You a Special Gift?

Women Over 50: Has Someone Given You a Special Gift?

Did you ever learn something from someone, almost inadvertently, that has remained with you for the rest of your life? This probably wasn’t a fact or a piece of specific information. Rather, it may have been an observation someone made about you or about how life...
Women Over 50: How Do You Deal with Loss?

Women Over 50: How Do You Deal with Loss?

Women Over 50: How Do You Deal with Loss? Do you ever feel, as the years pass, that you experience more and more loss? I think many people do. I certainly do. Both of my parents have died. Three very close friends have died. Last weekend my kitty, Mr. Bu, died. Since...
Women Over 50: What Is Loneliness for You?

Women Over 50: What Is Loneliness for You?

Are you ever lonely? In a recent post by Chip Conley, cofounder of the Modern Elder Academy, he wrote: “Both the UK and Japan have appointed Ministers of Loneliness. Dr. Ruth was recently appointed by the state of New York as the nation’s first Loneliness Ambassador.”...
How Cultural Messages Affect Women Over 50

How Cultural Messages Affect Women Over 50

Many of us have become very aware of the messages our culture sends us about what it means to be an older woman. Do you see it? Feel it? We have funny and not-so-funny stories about what we’ve seen or read, how we’ve been treated, or what someone has said to us....