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....
Women Over 50: How Self-Focused Are You?

Women Over 50: How Self-Focused Are You?

For several years I’ve read the Dalai Lama’s “The Path to Tranquility” every night. At this point I’ve probably gone through each day’s entry six or seven times, and yet, each time I read a day’s segment, I’m struck by something new. This was in a recent reading: “The...
Women Over 50: Making New Friends as We Get Older

Women Over 50: Making New Friends as We Get Older

As you get older, do find it more difficult to make friends? Recently, I was in a group of about twenty women all in their sixties through eighties. One of the most animated discussions we had was about how difficult it is to make new friends at this age. I thought...